"...The significance of man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.
Some of us are like ink and some like paper.
And if it were not for the blackness of some of us, some of us would be dumb;
And if it were not for the whiteness of some of us, some of us would be blind.
Give me an ear and I will give you a voice.
Our mind is a sponge; our heart is a stream.
Is it not strange that most of us choose sucking rather than running?..."
From "Sand and Foam" by Khalil Gibran
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/gibran/sandfoam/sandfoam.htm
2 comments:
That is a wonderful quote, Sherry. The kind of words the mind can just dissappear into.
Yes indeed...I thought for minutes on each sentence and they still look mysterious to me...
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