Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
KHALIL GIBRANThe giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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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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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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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.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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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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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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