Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
KHALIL GIBRANMuch of your pain is self-chosen.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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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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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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