Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KHALIL GIBRANWhen I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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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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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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One 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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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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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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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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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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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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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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