"Yet has not Man wept at the..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
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“...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.”
“Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?”
“Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.”
More on Emotion
“The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
“I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.”
More on Empathy
“Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.”
“That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.”
“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”