The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. – Khalil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. – Khalil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran
The just is close to the peoples heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. – Khalil Gibran
I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will