How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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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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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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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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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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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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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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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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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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