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
needs
What is fear of need but need itself?
ocean greatness needs
Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?
friendship real-friends needs
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
prayer joy needs
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
opportunity gone needs
Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
hunger-and-thirst next needs
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
valentines-day desire needs
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
giving needs receiving
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
aware knows memory timeless tomorrow yesterday
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.
filled laughter rises
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
asking country desert oasis politician
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
beauty light
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
daily heart less miracles pain seem wonder wondrous
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand