I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranRead
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Interpretation
Anxiety arises from our desire to control the uncontrollable aspects of the future.
Khalil Gibran's quote highlights the source of our anxiety, suggesting that it is not the act of contemplating the future that disturbs us, but rather our yearning to control what is inherently uncertain. This emphasizes the futility of attempting to manage every outcome, encouraging acceptance of life's unpredictability.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech addressing stress management.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? β A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
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