Beauty 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.
KHALIL GIBRANMen 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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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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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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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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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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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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