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
friendship best-friend real-friends
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
beautiful stars kindness
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
love doubt term
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
nature writing sky
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
passion enthusiasm reason
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
dream children parenting
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
shadow sun turns
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
wisdom words-of-wisdom
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
philosophy men soul
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
struggle men political
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
heaven kingdoms doe
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
science religion lips
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
appreciation heart people
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
faith uplifting philosophical
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.