"It takes a minute to have a..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”
“When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.”
“Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'”
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“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he lives, for the nation, and for the whole world”
“The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.”
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“The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.”
“This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”
“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”