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
burns either flame force held passion reason rudder ruling sails standstill toss
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.
war passion soul
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
love-you love-is passionate
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst....
spiritual passion flames
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring 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.
passion flames clock-is-ticking
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
flower passion light
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.
passion phoenix ashes
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
eye passion discipline
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.
moving heart passion
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.
passion funeral soul
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
work moving passion
Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
passion enthusiasm reason
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
passion soul lust
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
heart passion hell
Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart..