Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until … - Khalil Gibran

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We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Khalil Gibran

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

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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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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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