"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
-Khalil Gibran
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.“
-Khalil Gibran
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
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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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"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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"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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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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