Khalil Gibran Quotes

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Khalil Gibran

Faith, Heart, Thinking

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran

Nature, Forget, Long

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran

Fear, Path, Blood

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran

Giving, Pride, Less

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Life, Happiness

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran

Blame, Wind, Secrets

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Moving, Another

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran

Sad, Sadness, Two

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.
Khalil Gibran

Country, Second, Politician

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran

Beautiful, End, Human

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.
Khalil Gibran

Sympathy, Truth, Heart

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Khalil Gibran

Forget, Person, May

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran

Art, Knowledge, Ignorance

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran

Heart, Expect, Flowers

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

Power, Justice, Political

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran

Inspirational, Love, Beauty

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran

Mind, Heart, Person

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran

Pain, Breaking, Shell

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

Love is trembling happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Happiness, Love, Trembling

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Mother, Self

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran

Art, Step, Toward

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Death, Sea

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Doubt, Speaking

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran

Learning, God, Knowledge

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Poet

Born: January 6, 1883

Died: April 10, 1931

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