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
beauty eternity good itself true wealth
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
children daughters longing sons
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
asked understanding
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
learns loves
They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.
both found freedom loneliness safety understand
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being understood. For those who understand us enslave something in us.
aware knows memory timeless tomorrow yesterday
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
lost temper truth
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
answer flower seed soul
Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
burns either flame force held passion reason rudder ruling sails standstill toss
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
deep deeper given giving heart joy shall sorrow
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. 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 y
acquired
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.
blind darkness empty indeed knowledge life save urge vain work
Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
earth
Let the earth take that which is hers; for I, man, have no end