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Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist best known for *The Prophet*, a book of poetic essays that has been translated into over 100 languages. His lyrical reflections on love, marriage, work, and death blend Eastern mysticism with Western romanticism in a voice that is entirely his own.

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

— Khalil Gibran

Equality

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”

— Khalil Gibran

Music

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

Teacher

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

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

— Khalil Gibran

Death

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

— Khalil Gibran

Death

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

— Khalil Gibran

Art

“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

— Khalil Gibran

Attitude

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

Strength

“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“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

Beauty

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

— Khalil Gibran

Fear

“Love is trembling happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

Happiness

“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

Religion

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

— Khalil Gibran

Equality

“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

Happiness

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

— Khalil Gibran

Life

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

— Khalil Gibran

Teacher

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love