Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
– Kahlil Gibran
Related Quotes:
- One passion leads to another. It’s passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. – Chloe Thurlow
- Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. – Kahlil Gibran
- The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction. – Kahlil Gibran
- For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? – Kahlil Gibran
- Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS. – Ray Mancini
- Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. – Kahlil Gibran
- Destruction is a man’s will,Nevertheless Prevention is also a man’s will,Its a man’s choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. 🙂 – Babu Rajan
- For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. – Kahlil Gibran
- Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around. – Barbara Ehrenreich
- The passion for destruction is also a creative passion – Mikhail Bakunin
- Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than passion. – Zaman Ali
- To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. – Richard Whately
- Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. – Sena Jeter Naslund
- I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren’t living. – Thurman P Banks Jr
- Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self. – Sarah Hackley
- Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most. – AE Samaan
- While some consider God’s standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing. – Craig Groeschel
- Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it. – John Patrick Hickey
- Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction. – Richie Norton
- Many call this process ‘the destruction of nature.’ But it’s not really destruction, it’s change. Nature cannot be destroyed. – Yuval Noah Harari
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Kahlil Gibran
- Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers. – Kahlil Gibran
- Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. – Kahlil Gibran
- Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. – Kahlil Gibran
- Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. – Kahlil Gibran
- All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? – Kahlil Gibran
- When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. – Kahlil Gibran
- An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. – Kahlil Gibran
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran
- To belittle, you have to be little. – Kahlil Gibran
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. – Kahlil Gibran
- Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse – Kahlil Gibran
- Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. – Kahlil Gibran
- You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams – Kahlil Gibran
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran
- Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. – Kahlil Gibran
- Long ago you were a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth. – Kahlil Gibran
- The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Kahlil Gibran