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Kahlil Gibran

Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter

1883–1931

37 quotes, most often on Love, Time and God.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
The Prophet (1923), On Self-KnowledgeIn context
- Philosophy
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
The Prophet (1923), On FriendshipIn context
- Friendship
Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
The Prophet (1923), On TimeIn context
- Time
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
The Prophet (1923), On ChildrenIn context
- Children
- Family
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
The Prophet (1923), On LoveIn context
- Love
For in truth it is life that gives unto life⁠—while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
The Prophet (1923), On GivingIn context
- Charity
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
The Prophet (1923), On TimeIn context
- Love
- Time

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