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
prayer joy needs
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
morning helping-others giving
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
inspirational-love thinking knives
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
spiritual clothes beautiful-clothes
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
life war military
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
regret light darkness
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.
loneliness sea feelings
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
giving desire charity
There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
gratitude joy sorrow
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]
people
To be closer to god, be closer to people.
men self gold
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
quality citizens faith-and-love
Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
hurt truth fall
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.
life depression running
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.