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Vinculums of the Nexus
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
~Epictetus
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Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
~James Allen
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
~Stephen Covey
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The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
~Kahlil Gibran
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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
~Kahlil Gibran
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.
~Kahlil Gibran
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
~Kahlil Gibran
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
~Kahlil Gibran
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~Kahlil Gibran
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You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~Kahlil Gibran
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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
~Kahlil Gibran
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There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
~Kahlil Gibran
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You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever
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Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
~Kahlil Gibran
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
~Kahlil Gibran
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!
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I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?
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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
~Kahlil Gibran
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Love has no other desire but to fulfull itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
~Kahlil Gibran
