Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANDesire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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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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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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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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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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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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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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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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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