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You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923)In context
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931A Handful of Sand on the Shore, as quoted in Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers (2006) by Karen Fiala, p. 127
- Change
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Sand and Foam (1926)
I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Madman (1918), Faces
Generally change in our society is incremental. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Ian Millhisser (October 8, 2015): Justice Ginsburg’s Warning To A Dysfunctional Nation. In: ThinkPrgoress
- Change
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830), Bk. V, Ch. 1
- Art
- Talking
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773)
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by MephistophelesIn context
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter to Theo van Gogh, Cuesmes (c. 22–24 June 1880), letter 155