I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranRead
Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
Interpretation
Experience often reveals deeper truths than speed or haste.
This quote suggests that those who take their time and observe carefully, like tortoises, can offer valuable insights about life's journey, in contrast to the hasty hares who may miss important lessons. It emphasizes the importance of patience and the depth of understanding that comes from deliberate and considered experiences.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about taking your time in life.
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.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.
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