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And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran 
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- 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
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- 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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- 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
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
Only love and death will change all things.
- 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
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- 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
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
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
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity.
- 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
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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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