Quotation by

Khalil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

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When you truly care for someone, you should give them the freedom to leave instead of holding them tightly. If they come back to you on their own, it shows a genuine connection, but if they don’t, it means that connection was never real.

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