The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
KHALIL GIBRANMan struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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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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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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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.
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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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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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