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.
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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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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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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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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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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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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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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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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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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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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