POSTING QUOTES:

 

LOVE IS SHORT, FORGETTING IS SO LONG. -PABLO NERUDA

THE UGLIER THE GUY, THE GREATER THE PROBLEM, THAT HE THINKS HE'S GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN. -JESSICA ZAFRA

A GUY WHO NEVER PICKS UP TAB AT A RESTAURANT: CONSTIPATED WALLET, CONSTIPATED EMOTIONS -JESSICA ZAFRA

Seven times have I despised my soul:
The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.
The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.
The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.
The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength.
The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue. -KHALIL GIBRAN

MORE OF GIBRAN

Life is a procession. The slow of foot finds it too swift and he steps out;
And the swift of foot finds it too slow and he too steps out.

It is the honor of the murdered that he is not the murderer.


We are all climbing toward the summit of our hearts' desire. Should the other climber steal your sack and your purse and wax fat on the one and heavy on the other, you should pity him;
The climbing will be harder for his flesh, and the burden will make his way longer.
And should you in your leanness see his flesh puffing upward, help him a step; it will add to your swiftness.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.


IF IT WERE not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.

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.

A woman may veil her face with a smile.


How noble is the sad heart who would sing a joyous song with joyous hearts.

They dip their pens in our hearts and think they are inspired.


Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.


The difference between the richest man and the poorest is but a day of hunger and an hour of thirst.


You are truly a forgiver when you forgive murderers who never spill blood, thieves who never steal, and liars who utter no falsehood


The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.


The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

 

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."


"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."



"SAID A SHEET OF SNOW-WHITE PAPER . . . "

Said a sheet of snow-white paper, "Pure was I created, and pure will I remain for ever. I would rather be burnt and turn to white ashes than suffer darkness to touch me or the unclean to come near me."
The ink-bottle heard what the paper was saying, and it laughed in its dark heart; but it never dared to approach her. And the multicoloured pencils heard her also, and they too never came near her.
And the snow-white sheet of paper did remain pure and chaste for ever, pure and chaste -- and empty.
--Sand and Foam (1926)

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

NOTHING FOLLOWS