Life Quotes Quote by Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”

“You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.”

“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.”

“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”