If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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 and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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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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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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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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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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