Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
KHALIL GIBRANYesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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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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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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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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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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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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