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 TAGOREBy plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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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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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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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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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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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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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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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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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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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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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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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 real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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