Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
KHALIL GIBRANListen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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