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Letter "K" » Kahlil Gibran Quotes
«A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.»
«Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
adorer, adorers, comeliness, hallow, hallows, recompenses, recompensing, sanctifies, sanctify, sanctifying, temple
«Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.»
«Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...»
«Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.»
«Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dry, flowing, pass by, spring water, thirsty, tossed
«Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
desert, oases, oasis, parasite, politician, zealous
«The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bigger, eye, Eyes of the World, Eye of, Eye of the World, human being, Human eye, microscope, microscopes, seem, The Eye, The Microscope
«You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?»
«In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
announces, announcing, battling, conceals, excess, half-truth, moderate, moderated, moderating, presenting, The Other Half, wrath
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