The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREPatriotism 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 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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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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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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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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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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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 can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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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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Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.
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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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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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