When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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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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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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