The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
KHALIL GIBRANWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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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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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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