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
causes heavens hidden voice
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
blind darkness empty indeed knowledge life save urge vain work
Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
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.
binds brother deep love mountain sister sit strong three together
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
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.
friendship friends-or-friendship sharing sweetness
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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.
lost temper truth
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
melt stand sun
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
australian-actor kindness learnt silence toleration ungrateful
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.