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 TAGOREThe 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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
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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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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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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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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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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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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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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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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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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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