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
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Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...
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When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments
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And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert
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Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
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You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
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The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.