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
inspirational life inspiring
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
peace heart thinking
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
finding-love amazing-love weddings-and-love
Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
poverty purses surrender
Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.
wind house bereavement
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind....
food humor men
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
love beautiful jewels
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
purpose spirit mystery
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
effort society gold
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
heart hands soul
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
spiritual pain heart
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.
confused confusion soul
Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.
love marriage wedding
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
men fellow-man littles
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.