Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, “I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress.”
And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, “Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without.”
At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, “Yes you are well and whole; but the pain that you neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.”
- Kahlil Gibran
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Albert Schweitzer