The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
KHALIL GIBRANThe truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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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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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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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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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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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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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 silence of the envious is too noisy.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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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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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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