"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

Gibran, Kahlil on contentment
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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."

Gibran, Kahlil on children
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"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children."

Gibran, Kahlil on wisdom
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"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."

Gibran, Kahlil on teacher
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil on silence
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"This instant is the only time there is."

A Course In Miracles on present
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on appreciation
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"The most important thing about goals is having one."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on goals
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"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."

Abbott, Lyman on children
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"The highest qualities of character must be earned."

Abbott, Lyman on character
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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on knowledge
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"I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself."

Abbott, Jim on competition
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on growth
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"All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here"

A.R. Rahman on love
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man."

Gibran, Kahlil on money
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Your friend is your needs answered."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil on forgiveness
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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 do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

Gibran, Kahlil on doubt
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse."

Gibran, Kahlil on deeds and good deeds   

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Gibran, Kahlil on the future
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on generosity
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"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

Gibran, Kahlil on modesty
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"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."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge
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"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge   

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on kindness
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