"I have learned silence from the talkative,..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“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.”
“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
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“Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.”
“Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.”
“There were no ugly people in Ethiopia”