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
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Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
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The Real me is mute, it is the acquired that is talkative.
cannot friends-or-friendship lies listen rather reality reveals understand
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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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.
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When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking
asked understanding
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
causes heavens hidden voice
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment
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When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
burned cup deeper holds joy sorrow wine
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
again deeper meet shall sing twilight
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.