We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANBut 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.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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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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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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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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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 is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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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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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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