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
men yardsticks riches
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
love inspirational motivational
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
relationship faults preoccupation
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
work generosity giving
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
spring heart winter
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.
change love-and-death all-things
Only love and death will change all things.
beauty civilization beautiful-women
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
pain self sick
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
valentines-day desire needs
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
sweet song heart
The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
heart roots vines
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
spiritual strong ocean
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
friendship laughter true-friend
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.
wind clothes body
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.