Kahlil Gibran quote: "You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other w...
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It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regre...
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be po...
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores...
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When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his win...
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
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Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from be...
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”...
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When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold y...
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love o...
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We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes th...
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That...
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they n...
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ...
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He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
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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 ...
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You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you...
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all...
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cea...
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorn...
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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of s...
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul...
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world...
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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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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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who di...
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those with...
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls it...
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skyla...
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always re...
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come ne...
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host,...
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and the...
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier th...
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And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you n...
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Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,...
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That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in th...
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recomp...
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to ...
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll...
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees...
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are...
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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with th...
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s...
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do...
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When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other...
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He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from ...
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despi...
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of ...
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and ...
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to...
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I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unki...
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of orig...
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
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The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory ...
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass ov...
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the ...
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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful...
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the u...
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Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.
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Reality is for those who lack imagination
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and res...
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the un...
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my b...
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
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There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his lo...
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you ...
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When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blin...
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a st...
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor...
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names....
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You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but h...
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And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom become...
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or ...
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of t...
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Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem les...
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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear...
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تقولين لي أنك تخافين الحب
لماذا تخافينه يا صغيرتي ؟ ...
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And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.
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Nerede olursa olsun, toprağı kaz, bir hazine bulacaksın;
ama bir çiftçinin inancıyla kazm...
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowle...
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you se...
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
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You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your j...
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
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Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its ...
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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile...
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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the de...
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It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-...
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the ...
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The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew o...
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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unki...
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God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have...
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatn...
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of trib...
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha...
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
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Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
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The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul linger...
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نحن نتكلم عندما توصد أمامنا أبواب السلام عن افكارنا ، و...
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the peopl...
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...
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Let your best be for your friend...
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Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower wit...
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Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body
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Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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