Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
KHALIL GIBRANYou cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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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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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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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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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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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 I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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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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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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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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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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