I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORELet me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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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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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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