I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
KHALIL GIBRANWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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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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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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