Khalil Gibran on blind
“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
John MiltonJohn Milton There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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