To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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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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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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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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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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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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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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