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.
RABINDRANATH TAGORESome 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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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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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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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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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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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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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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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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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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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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The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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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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