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.
KHALIL GIBRANGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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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 silence of the envious is too noisy.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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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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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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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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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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