It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Kahlil Gibran
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  1. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael

  2. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. - Antonio Porchia

  4. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. - Marcus Aurelius

More Quotes By Kahlil Gibran
  1. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

  2. Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but...

  3. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  4. When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice...

  5. No human relation gives one possession in another–every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

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