You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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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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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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