I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranRead
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Interpretation
Emotional turmoil can prevent positive outcomes.
This quote by Khalil Gibran suggests that if one is consumed by intense feelings of anger or turmoil, represented by a 'volcano', it is unrealistic to expect positive and beautiful things, like 'flowers', to emerge from such negative energy. It encourages introspection on how our emotional state impacts our external circumstances and relationships.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming personal challenges.
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.
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
The unspeakable visions of the individual.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.
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