Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibranwas a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1883
CityBsharri, Lebanon
CountryLebanon
best-love heart mouths
The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
should-have should feels
When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other
grief ignorant might
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
faith powerful forever
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
heart born
When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
loses
To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.
sensitive
All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand...
roots growth crowns
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
self towers foundation
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
eye hands taught
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
jesus father clouds
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
ignorance weary offspring
Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.
spiritual wisdom journey
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
song mute grain
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.