It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship... - Kahlil Gibran

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

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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."
"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."
"Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."