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
truth-is openness
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
spirituality
The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
sick tolerance haughtiness
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.
democracy half guilty
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
ideology mines
You have your ideology and I have mine.
heritage deny
He who denies his heritage, has no heritage
friendship best-friend sweet
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
made tombs
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
assigned cute-love dream fulfil furthest intimate keeping labour life love loving sweet-love truth work
When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
punishing thieves
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
burned cup deeper holds joy sorrow wine
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?