A Facebook friend (thank you, Mary Neis) shared this quote from a work by Lebanese-American writer and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) in another form this morning and it resonated. I keep trying to learn all of these lessons from various sources with mixed results. There's a good deal of truth here.
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
Quotes have a habit of coming unhitched from precise sources and that's a hazard. If you can't track a quote to a specific source in automatically is questionable.
This one, however, came from a 1926 work by Gibran, "Sand and Foam." So I feel secure in sharing it.
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