"Only when you drink from the river..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
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“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
“As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.”
“Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.”
More on Silence
“Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
“Listen to the sound of silence.”
“I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.”
More on Creativity
“Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.”
“Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.”
“I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.”