"To know the pain of too much..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
To know the pain of too much tenderness
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“Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.”
“joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
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“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.”
“A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
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“It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together”
“The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.”
“Life is beautiful and living is pain.”