Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREWe live in the world when we love it.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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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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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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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
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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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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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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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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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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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