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
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.
strong determination way
When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.
hands silence treasure
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
beautiful sweet heart
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.
beautiful pain stress
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.
inspiring love-life secret
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
eagles sun nests
And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.