Much of your pain is self-chosen.
KHALIL GIBRANYesterday 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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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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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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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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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 giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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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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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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