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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.

Rabindranath Tagore

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Feeling Myself Smile Wait Yourself
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Education Existence Life Ourselves
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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Earth Light Love Man Myself See Sing World
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.
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Comfortable Generosity Greatness Happiness Life Love Peace Success
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Inspirational Sea Yourself
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Music Oneself Poetry
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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Creation God Man Thinking Understand Woman
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Deep Hands Logic Mindset
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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Life Stars Sun Tears Yourself
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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Light Love Man Myself See Sunrise World
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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Dream Generosity Joy Life Myself Philosophy
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Appearance Scare Stars
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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Beauty Eyes Love See Simplicity
I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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Flower Lost Morning Myself Stars
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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Humanity Live Patriot Price Spiritual
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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Believe Creation Mind People Principle Reflection World
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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Heart Myself Pain
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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Danger Fear Inspirational Myself Prayer
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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Dream Friendship Home Myself
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Earth Generosity Reward
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Deep Myself Song
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Earth Effort. Listen End Heaven Tree
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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Children End Sea World
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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Darkness Greatness Mystery Philosophy Sea Wisdom
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Beautiful Flower Herself Yourself
Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Fear Moments Sing Voice
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Deep Enough Moments Time

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