Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
KHALIL GIBRANTortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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