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.
KHALIL GIBRANMan struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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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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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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