Khalil gibran poems on birthdays

Kahlil Gibran is considered to be one of Lebanon's and the world's preeminent literary and cultural figures. The writer and artist left his mark through his artwork, writing and poetry, leaving behind a legacy that is still remembered and honored today.

Just last year, internationally renowned Mexican-America actress Salma Hayek, who is of Lebanese ancestry, produced an animated version of Gibran's literary masterpiece "The Prophet," which premiered in Beirut to wide acclaim.

Today, years after this Lebanese treasure's birth, we remember Gibran for his wisdom and poetic eloquence.

Here are 12 of our favorite quotes from his writings.

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Khalil gibran poems on birthdays and death Kahlil Gibran Comments. That image Is no longer my own, for Sorrow has dropped his Shadow on my happy countenance of the past. Write new comment. Kahlil Gibran Poems 1.

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

2. "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

3. "But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

4. "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

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Khalil gibran poems on birthdays Remember you the trails and forest we walked, with hands Joined, and our heads leaning against each other, as if We were hiding ourselves within ourselves? Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. The words written next to Gibran's grave are "a word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Are you fondling my face in your memory?

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

6. "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

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

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

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Khalil gibran poems on children His mother began working as a seamstress peddler, selling lace and linens that she carried from door to door. And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children. Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Since it was first published in , The Prophet has never been out of print.

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"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."

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