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 GIBRANYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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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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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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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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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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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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