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.
KHALIL GIBRANWisdom 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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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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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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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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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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