I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
RABINDRANATH TAGORENever be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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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.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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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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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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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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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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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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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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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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses 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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The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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