"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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"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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"How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper."
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"That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart."
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"And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."
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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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"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy."
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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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"Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others."
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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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"How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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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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"The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe."
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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 sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
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"Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.""
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"If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning."
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
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