"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
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"My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people."
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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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"One may not reach the dawn save by path of night."
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"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
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"We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!"
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"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
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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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"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."
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"Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond."
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"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."
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"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."
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"I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile."
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"I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts."
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"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof."
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"Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts."
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"When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
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"Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer."
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"You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind."
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