You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. … - Khalil Gibran

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Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.

Khalil Gibran

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

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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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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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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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