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
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand
cannot friends-or-friendship lies listen rather reality reveals understand
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but 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.
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.
asked understanding
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
inspirational men understanding
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
life understanding faithful
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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.
pain heart understanding
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
alone asleep joy remember sorrow together
... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
acquired
The Real me is mute, it is the acquired that is talkative.
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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 you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
again deeper meet shall sing twilight
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.