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
pain heart understanding
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
inspirational laughter heart
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.
children parenting archery
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
inspirational life sadness
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
friendship best-friend real-friends
Your friend is your needs answered.
men law bird
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
kindness spring heart
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
sunset rainbow soul
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
passion soul lust
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
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.