“My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying.”
Your Thought and Mine
Context: My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve.
You have your thought and I have mine.
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Khalil Gibran 111
Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931Related quotes

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