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
numbers advice enemy
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
inspirational-love laughter wine
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
life spiritual wisdom
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
heart hands feet
I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
love beauty beautiful
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
depression grief night
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
inspirational life wisdom
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
spiritual truth half
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
heart light flames
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
wedding heart hands
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
pain reading-poetry joy
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
religion temples daily-life
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
struggle men seeking
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
pain oysters passing-by
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."