How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANThe mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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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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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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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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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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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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