Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Topic: Pain
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
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More on Pain
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.