Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANI 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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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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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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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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 distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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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 best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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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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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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