I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
KHALIL GIBRANThe universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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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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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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 are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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