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
friendship friends-or-friendship sharing sweetness
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
drop found oceans secrets water
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans
blame reveal revealing secrets wind
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
lost temper truth
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
daily heart less miracles pain seem wonder wondrous
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
filled laughter rises
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
asking country desert oasis politician
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert
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.
assigned curse dream fulfill furthest keeping labour loving truth work
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill 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...
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.
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.
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.