Power said to the world, you are mine. The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, I am thine. The world gave it the freedom of her house.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREDeath is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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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 traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
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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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The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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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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I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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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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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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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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