Khalil Gibran Quotes

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Khalil Gibran

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: lebanese
  • Birth: January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931

Topics

LifeBeautyTruthHeartLovingHand

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

Joel Fuhrman

ToxicSameResolveHungerSimply

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Jen Lancaster

LifeMyselfPerspectiveBelieve

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

Andre Previn

MusicWritingFinallyInterested

For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

Anand Mahindra

DifferencesIndiaMoreNeedEconomy

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

Sondra Radvanovsky

LiveSpaceForestYouNeedOpera

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

Robert Bork

PurposeEqualityLawSeparation

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Roxane Gay

GreatArtPeopleAppreciateI Can

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Logan Pearsall Smith

DayRichSoberDrinkBehaveStay

I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

David Shields

HateBookMysteryYearYouPerson

Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

Cory Booker

TogetherGenerationDownCountryWay

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Clyde Tombaugh

ScienceBibleMythologyAncientFit

I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.

Ashley McBryde

FaceMoreTattoosGetThan

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