Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

About Kahlil Gibran:

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Kahlil Gibran

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the...

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Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is dee...

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Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it was only yesterday that I was a blossom. And call none among you foolish for we are neither wise nor foolish. We are green leaves upon the tree of ...

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Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountif...

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Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

Kahlil Gibran

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

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Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

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The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understand the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon h...

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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prints, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

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Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

Kahlil Gibran

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

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You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

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Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

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Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

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When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

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Author Bio

  • NameKahlil Gibran
  • DescriptionLebanese artist, poet, and writer
  • BornJanuary 6, 1883
  • DiedApril 10, 1931
  • CountryLebanon
  • ProfessionPoet; Painter; Philosopher; Writer; Novelist; Sculptor; Artist