The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
KHALIL GIBRANLove 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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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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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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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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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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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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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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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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