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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.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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. Forever.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.