Sunday, January 24, 2010

Truly great man

"The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none."
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran

3 comments:

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

Kahlil Gibran, born in 1883in Lebanon, was a brilliant philosopher, poet and artist. His love for our spiritual nature, refusing to believe anything that went against it, made him a notable influence, that continues to inspire.

Mayank Trivedi said...

Greatness comes where one masters own senses and then drives them for the betterment of society....where the person does not try to impose things rather tries to help people

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

Correct. I just read a beautiful message, which i would like to cite here -

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."