All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
KHALIL GIBRANWhen I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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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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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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