Home > Work > Sand and Foam
1 " It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it. "
― Kahlil Gibran , Sand and Foam
2 " Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. "
3 " Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
4 " When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. "
5 " Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. "
6 " If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? "
7 " Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. "
8 " All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. "
9 " You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. "
10 " My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. "
11 " You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself. "
12 " Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. "
13 " Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. "
14 " Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth. "
15 " Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets. "
16 " Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. "
17 " You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge. "
18 " There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. "
19 " Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem "
20 " A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. "