Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
KHALIL GIBRANFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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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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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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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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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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 is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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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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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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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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