Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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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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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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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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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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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 like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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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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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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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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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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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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