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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
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Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
inspirational faith lonely
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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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.