"How narrow is the vision that exalts..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
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“If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.”
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“There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.”
“Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.”
“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”
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“Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.”