Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
KHALIL GIBRANMuch of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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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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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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