"But if in your fear you would..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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“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.”
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
“Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.”
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“and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.”
“One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.”
“Giving is true loving.”
More on Fear
“The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.”
“Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.”
“You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.”