"Man struggles to find life outside himself,..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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“All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.”
“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
“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.”
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“I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.”
“What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.”
“No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?”
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“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”