By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREPower 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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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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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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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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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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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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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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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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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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I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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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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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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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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