Born: 1883 AD
Died: 1931 AD, at 48 years of age.
Nationality: Lebanese
Gibran, Kahlil
1883 – He was born on January 6 this year in Bsharri, Lebanon.
1898 - A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers.
1904 – He held his first art exhibition in 1904 in Boston. During this exhibition, he met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, a respected headmistress ten years his senior.
1908 – He went to study art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years, and then later on he went to study art in Boston.
1918 – Most of his early writings were in Syriac and Arabic, most of his work published after this year was in English.
1931 –He died on the 10th day of April this year in New York City due to cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
1898 - A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers.
1904 – He held his first art exhibition in 1904 in Boston. During this exhibition, he met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, a respected headmistress ten years his senior.
1908 – He went to study art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years, and then later on he went to study art in Boston.
1918 – Most of his early writings were in Syriac and Arabic, most of his work published after this year was in English.
1931 –He died on the 10th day of April this year in New York City due to cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
Famous Quotes from Gibran, Kahlil
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."- "My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion."Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress."Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful."Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block."Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking."Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again."Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
- "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
- "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
- "Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."
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