Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
KHALIL GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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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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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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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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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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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 are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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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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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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