Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
KHALIL GIBRANNature 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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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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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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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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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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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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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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