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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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Comfortable Generosity Greatness Happiness Life Love Peace Success
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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Death Joy Smile World Yourself
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Music Oneself Poetry
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
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Creation God Man Thinking Understand Woman
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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Deep Forever Philosophy
Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Darkness Help Myself Stars
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Dance Perfection
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
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Believe Creation Mind People Principle Reflection World
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
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Carry Eyes Heart Myself Yourself
Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Acceptance Gift Love Wait
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
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Earth Light Love Man Myself See Sing World
Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Fear Moments Sing Voice
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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Dream Important Strange Wake Up
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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Darkness Greatness Sea Silence Truth
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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Children End Sea World

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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