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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#alms #better #cannot #distaste #gate

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. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#against #derision #divinity #follow #footsteps

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#actual life #been #career #go #go home

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. ↗

— Andre Gide

#decisive #life #most #often

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. ↗

— Andre Gide

#me #rising #serenity #sole #suits

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#dream #enchanted #event #expectation #exquisitely

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#any #bad #i #i am #much

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe. ↗

— Danny Glover

#choices #compromising #feel #i #i believe