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Fall in Love in What You Do

Padel is a racket-based ball sport that could be described as a mixture of squash and tennis. It is played within an enclosed space like squash but shares many similarities with tennis—a net in the middle, where players must pass a ball over the net into an opponent's side by hitting it with their racket. However, in Padel, the walls/fences of the enclosed court are firmly part of the sport's gameplay.

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Thoughts: Life, Love, Legacy

Nietzsche through his many illnesses and madness still found the focus and thinking that would go on to inspire generations of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Herman Hesse, long after his death.

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Kahlil Gibran on Love: A Poetic Journey

I was in my last year of college and 18 months into a relationship. The earlier passion had long since worn off, quickly replaced by arguments and misunderstandings. Our different interests, values and visions of the future surfaced in every minute detail of the present.

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Everything We Need to Know About Love in a Khalil Gibran Poem

Gibran wrote in both Arabic and English, and his best work was produced in the era of the roaring twenties in New York City. He was influenced by the free thought and exuberance of that time, and he was regularly associated with W.B. Yeats, Carl Jung and Rodin. His seminal book, The Prophet, is amongst the best-selling books of all time—after The Bible and Shakespeare’s collections.

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