Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KHALIL GIBRANYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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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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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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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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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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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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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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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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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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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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