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
inspiring work inspirational-life
Work is love made visible.
inspirational life motivational
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
beauty heart second-chance
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
inspirational wisdom may
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
flower heart garden
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.
men world doe
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
inspirational education wise
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
people far-away
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
ocean water secret
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
marriage moving sea
love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
love relationship smile
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
eye heart errors
Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.
wisdom selfish laughing
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
life sad moving
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.