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
aware knows memory timeless tomorrow yesterday
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
australian-actor dreams tomorrow yesterday
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
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.
memories years yesterday
And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
moving yesterday spheres
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
memories moving-forward yesterday
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
jealous yesterday judgement
Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.
yesterday necks bent
Follow only beauty and obey only love.
parenting yesterday bows-and-arrows
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand
australian-actor cultivates knowledge seeds sow
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.
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.