The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
KHALIL GIBRANHow beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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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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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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