If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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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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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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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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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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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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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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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