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
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
answer flower seed soul
Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
learns loves
They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.
assigned curse dream fulfill furthest keeping labour loving truth work
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill 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...
beauty eternity good itself true wealth
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
burns either flame force held passion reason rudder ruling sails standstill toss
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
deep deeper given giving heart joy shall sorrow
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When y
children daughters longing sons
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
lost temper truth
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
australian-actor dreams tomorrow yesterday
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
friendship friends-or-friendship sharing sweetness
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
drop found oceans secrets water
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans
blame reveal revealing secrets wind
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.