I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
KHALIL GIBRANHe who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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