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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.

“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”

— Khalil Gibran

God

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

Equality

“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”

— Khalil Gibran

God

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Khalil Gibran

Friendship

“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

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”

— Khalil Gibran

Great

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

— Khalil Gibran

Experience

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“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

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

— Khalil Gibran

Poetry

“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

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

— Khalil Gibran

Death

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

— Khalil Gibran

Beauty

“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

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sad

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

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

— Khalil Gibran

Death

“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

“Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”

— Khalil Gibran

Time