Khalil Gibran
Libano
6 Jan 1883 // 10 Apr 1931
Poet
6 Jan 1883 // 10 Apr 1931
Poet
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays