Stand together yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart.

Kahlil Gibran · The source reads: “And stand together yet not too near together: / For the pillars of the temple stand apart,” · From "On Marriage" in The Prophet, the lines read at countless weddings, which go on to say the oak and the cypress do not grow in each other's shadow.

When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

Kahlil Gibran · The opening of "On Love" in The Prophet, Almustafa's answer when Almitra asks him to speak of love.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran · The source reads: “And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” · From The Prophet, the elders of Orphalese to the prophet as his ship comes to take him home.

More Love Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.