All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
KHALIL GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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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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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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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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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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