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
lying self matter
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
self towers foundation
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
time self stronger
Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
art night self
Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.
prayer self expansion
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
self-esteem insults-you praise
Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.
heart pride self
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
mother wisdom self
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
men self gold
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
men self enemy
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.
self sea depth
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
pain adversity self
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
pain self sick
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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.