Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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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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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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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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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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