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Informationen über Khalil Gibran

Maler, Philosoph, Dichter, "Der Garten des Propheten", "Die Musik", "Gebrochene Flügel" (Syrien/USA, 1883 - 1931).

Khalil Gibran · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Khalil Gibran wäre heute 141 Jahre, 11 Monate, 24 Tage oder 51.858 Tage alt.

Geboren am 06.01.1883 in Bsharri
Gestorben am 10.04.1931 in New York
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.

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• Are you a politician who says to himself: 'I will use my country for my own benefit'? . . . Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: 'I love to serve my country as a faithful servant.'

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in the dark tunnel.

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• Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.

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• Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

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• Even the masks of life are the masks of deeper mysteries.

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• Every dragon brings forth a Saint George who slays him.

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• Every winter shelters a shivering spring and behind every night a smiling morn lies hidden.

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• Generosity is giving more than you can; pride is taking less than you need.

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• In your togetherness leave some room for the breath of heaven to play between you.

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• Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

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• Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatest which does not bow before children.

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• Let the wind of the spirit blow between your shores. The great oaks in the forest do not grow in each other's shade.

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• Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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• Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and it enlivens the other who turns it upon his fellow man.

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• The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

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• The significance of man is not what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.

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• The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

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• Trees are poems which earth writes in the sky.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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