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
caravan faith heart oasis reached thinking
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking
inspirational men thinking
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
eye thinking sight
Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
life thinking stones
Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.
dark thinking feet
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
inspirational-love thinking knives
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
peace heart thinking
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
money thinking perspective
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
thinking worry anxiety
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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.