How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANLove 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 joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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