Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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.
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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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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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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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