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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.

Rabindranath Tagore

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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Dream Generosity Joy Life Myself Philosophy
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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Myself Silence Sun Thinking
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Beautiful Love See
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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Freedom Home Love Power Prison World Yourself
We live in the world when we love it.
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Live Love World
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Death Light Morning
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
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Believe Creation Mind People Principle Reflection World
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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Darkness Inspirational Myself Presence
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Feeling Myself Smile Wait Yourself
The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
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Darkness Friendship Reality Shine
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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Darkness Greatness Sea Silence Truth
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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Comfortable Generosity Greatness Happiness Life Love Peace Success
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Born Children Learning Limitation Time
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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Creation God Man Thinking Understand Woman
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Inspirational Sea Yourself
I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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Flower Lost Morning Myself Stars
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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Darkness Greatness Mystery Philosophy Sea Wisdom
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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Dream Important Strange Wake Up
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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Darkness Faith Feeling Light
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Education Existence Life Ourselves
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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Heart Myself Pain
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Dance Life Light Time Yourself
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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Earth Light Love Man Myself See Sing World
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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Humanity Live Patriot Price Spiritual
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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Life Stars Sun Tears Yourself
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Beautiful Love Seek
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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Light Love Man Myself See Sunrise World

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