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.
KHALIL GIBRANBe like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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Your 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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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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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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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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