The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
KHALIL GIBRANSit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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