We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANAll things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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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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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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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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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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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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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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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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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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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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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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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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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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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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