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
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."
flower faces sun
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
heart passion hell
Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart..
inspirational spiritual journey
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
beautiful appreciation war
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
humor giving may
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.