I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
KHALIL GIBRANTo 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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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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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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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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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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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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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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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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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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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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