Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
KHALIL GIBRANTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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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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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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