The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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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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Let your best be for your friend.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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