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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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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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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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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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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Love is trembling happiness.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only 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 of your souls.
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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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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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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.