Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
KHALIL GIBRANDesire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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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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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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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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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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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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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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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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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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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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