Saturday, September 15, 2007

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

3 Comments:

Blogger Michelle said...

It seems that life ore often delivers our sorrows before it does our joys so maybe this makes us appreciate them more but I don't think that one has to experience tragedy in order to understand or feel joy.

This is probably the kind of thing that we might say to a grieving person to help them make sense of their grief.

8:10 PM  
Blogger teresa said...

Against what would we measure the depth of our joyful experiences, and could we truly appreciate our moments of joy if we've not known sorrow?

2:38 PM  
Blogger Mike Carter said...

Neil Gaiman explained it so well in his "Sandman" series - Despair defines Hope, Death defines Life, Dream defines Reality.

10:39 AM  

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