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.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREWe cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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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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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
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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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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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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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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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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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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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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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