I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREOnce we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
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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.
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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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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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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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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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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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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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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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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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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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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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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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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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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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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