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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
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Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran 
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
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You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Khalil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Khalil Gibran
And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness;
and knows that yesterday is but today's memory
and tomorrow is today's dream.
- Khalil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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