Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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.
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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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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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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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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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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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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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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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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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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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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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