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
courage house lust
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
moving heart passion
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.
beauty civilization beautiful-women
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
wind house bereavement
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind....
country oasis zealous
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.
passion funeral soul
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
depression grief night
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
life art attitude
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
work generosity giving
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
food humor men
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
relationship faults preoccupation
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
pain self sick
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
heart sacrifice body
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
effort society gold
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.