When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
KHALIL GIBRANFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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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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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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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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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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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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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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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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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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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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