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
love secret body
A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
purpose spirit mystery
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
wind clothes body
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.
music spiritual secret
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
heart elements want
Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
adversity hardship retreat
Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
spiritual suffering complaining
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
friendship best-friend real-friends
Your friend is your needs answered.
spiritual eye dark
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.
inspirational motivational inspiring
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
music heart roots
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
forgiveness men forgiving
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
brother kindred true-worth
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
sunset rainbow soul
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.