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
daughter dream children
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
love inspirational life
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
inspirational wisdom knowledge
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
lying knowledge men
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
reality understanding listening
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
giving joy understanding
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
both found freedom loneliness safety understand
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being understood. For those who understand us enslave something in us.
men judging
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
hurt judging judgement
When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.
children parenting yesterday
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.