You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREMost 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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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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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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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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 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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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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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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