Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
KHALIL GIBRANA thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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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 and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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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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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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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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