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
world may spirituality
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
liars men thieves
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
self-confidence people doubt
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
pain grief healing
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
children rain flower
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
confused confusion soul
Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.
love beautiful jewels
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
hunger-and-thirst next needs
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
everyday tests privacy
For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.
self sea depth
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
loneliness sea feelings
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
justice greed hunger
...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
wine soul body
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
life work love-you
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.