Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

Poet, Writer

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet and philosopher, best known for his book 'The Prophet', which explores themes of love, life, and spirituality.

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Born
January 1, 1883
Died
April 10, 1931
Quotes
768
Rank
#16

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"Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love."

Heart Men Blood
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"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."

Spiritual Moon Sides
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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

Sympathy Death Grief
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"The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."

Men Law Bird
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"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."

Mother Wisdom Self
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"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

Passion Clock Is Ticking Flames
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"All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand."

Sensitive
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"If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience."

Heart Desert Audience
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"Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."

Passion Funeral Soul
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"The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth."

Eye Giving Water
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"In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings."

Effort Society Gold
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"When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life."

Long Mystery Mystery Of Life
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"Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."

Self Confidence People Doubt
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"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."

Giving Tree May
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"A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion."

Religious Men Doe
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