Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
KHALIL GIBRANBeauty 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 silence of the envious is too noisy.
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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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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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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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