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
friends decrease increase
As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
lonely voice talking
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
work soul earth
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
fear evil doubt
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
beauty beautiful death
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
stones foundation structure
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
spring heart eagles
Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.
doors hands
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.
earth sun skylarks
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
life loses
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
passion flames clock-is-ticking
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
house silence identity
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
life teaching men
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.
heart solitude today
I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...