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.
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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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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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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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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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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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive 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 my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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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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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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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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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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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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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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The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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