The 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.
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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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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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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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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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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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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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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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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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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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.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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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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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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The 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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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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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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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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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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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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