Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANYesterday 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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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your 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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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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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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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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