The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
KHALIL GIBRANIf 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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Let your best be for your friend.
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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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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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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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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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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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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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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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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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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 you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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