The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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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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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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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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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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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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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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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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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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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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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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