Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANMuch of your pain is self-chosen.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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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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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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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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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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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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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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