All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
KHALIL GIBRANWhen you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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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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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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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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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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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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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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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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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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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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