"A truth is to be known always,..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
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“For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.”
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”
“Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.”
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“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.”
“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”
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“Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?”
“If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.”
“Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.”