To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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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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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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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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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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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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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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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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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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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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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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