To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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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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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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