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
heart blood hands
When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.
truth hands doors
God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
opportunity gone needs
Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
relationship two pillars
Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
religious men doe
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
love running taken
Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.
fall evil wicked
Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
pain struggle sun
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
survival would-be beloved
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
lovers embrace
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
opportunity trying approach
He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
hands wind life-is
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
equality woe poverty
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
love inspirational life
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.