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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
«For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
breath, breathing, breathings, cease, expand, melt, naked, restless, rise, Rising Sun, rising tide, Sun rise, sun rose, The Sun, The Wind, tides, unencumbered, wind, wind rose
«Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
arcane, best-known, concealed, obvious, well known
«The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
atom, chemist, compassion, compound, compounding, compounds, elements, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, forgiveness, longing, patience, regret, surprise
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bid, enter, house, House of, indeed, leads, teacher, The Teacher, threshold, thresholds
«Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.»
«You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
deaf-and-dumb, deaf, deaf to, dumb, dumber