Kahlil Gibran, النبي Quotes
In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.
But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .
Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.
Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
