“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Let each one of you be alone, as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together, yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
More from Kahlil Gibran
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
“It takes only two to create a truth, one to utter it, and one to believe it.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are…”