How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANIf you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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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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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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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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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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