We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANTruth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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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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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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