If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Quote by Kahlil Gibran

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with...

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with...

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and...

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and...

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow...

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow...

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three...

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three...

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long...

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long...

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours...

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours...

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that...

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that...

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but...

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but...

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it...

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it...

Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and...

Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and...

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be...

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be...

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body,...

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body,...

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to...

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to...

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and...

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and...

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at...

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at...

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast. It shall not be a...

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast. It shall not be a...

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the...

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the...

To all the students who drop out and failed high school: Remember two things; 1)...

To all the students who drop out and failed high school: Remember two things; 1)...

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's...

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's...

Sprinkle joy.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how...

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how...

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man...

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man...