Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
KHALIL GIBRANHe who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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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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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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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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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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