If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
KHALIL GIBRANOne 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.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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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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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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