Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
KHALIL GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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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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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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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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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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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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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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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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