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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Rabindranath Tagore

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
Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Darkness Help Myself Stars
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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God Myself Right Willing Worship
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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Leaving Season Sing Summer
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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Carry Eyes Heart Myself Yourself
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
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
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Freedom Love Philosophy Prison
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Earth Effort. Listen End Heaven Tree
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
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
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
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Deep Myself Song
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Dance Perfection
The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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Ambition Big Change Love Man Nature Woman
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
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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Beauty Eyes Love See Simplicity
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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Heart Myself Pain
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
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
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
Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Acceptance Gift Love Wait
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
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Goodness Himself Time
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
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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End Home Spiritual Travel World

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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