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
eye passion discipline
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.
habit meaningless
Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
spiritual lying real
Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman....
progress done reaching
You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
inspirational men desire
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
being-strong song sweet
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
grief heart winter
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
house soul dawn
Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.
spirituality
The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
laughter tears scoffers
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
real real-friends lasting-friendship
Let your best be for your friend...
memories moving-forward yesterday
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
ocean humility men
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.
suicide suicidal men
Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.