Rabindranath Tagore quote: "The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite."

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is co...
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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 is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first t...
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
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পৃথিবীতে যারা মুখ ফুটে নালিশ করতে পার�...
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The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
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We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us ...
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower...
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The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum...
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through an...
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The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ser...
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
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In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Le...
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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All that is not given is lost.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in v...
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of ...
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and beh...
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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
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Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all mo...
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Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a ...
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In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum...
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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the uni...
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Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it i...
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This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his s...
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The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is ...
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.
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The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the cease...
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The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training...
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finit...
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and...
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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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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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the youn...
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmon...
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the h...
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my su...
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is co...
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains ...
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for t...
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In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, a...
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the d...
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Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the en...
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and f...
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The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, igno...
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The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ...
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I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains u...
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It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops...
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I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play
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Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the...
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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 te...
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Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from beh...
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إن أبلغ درس يتعلمه الإنسان من الحياة هو أنه ليس هناك أل�...
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إنني أتشوّف إلى أن أردد لك أعمق الكلمات التي
ينبغي أ�...
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الفن يماثل الحب في كونه غير قابل للتفسير
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إن الحب المكتوم لحبٌ مقدسٌ ، إنه يتلألأ كجوهرة ،
في غ...
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أنا لا اظفر بالراحة .

أنا ظامئ إلى الأشياء البعيد�...
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I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and ...
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CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74
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WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 58
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The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
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Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.
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Do not blame your food because you have no appetite.
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What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
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Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
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MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.
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THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and fli...
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THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
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I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.
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I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or...
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The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.
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The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.
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The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
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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 him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.
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The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
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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 lig...
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Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the layi...
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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Lo...
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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 si...
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your ...
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His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity wa...
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According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things...
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By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
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The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum...
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The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, ...
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The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.
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Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In l...
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them....
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India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy riv...
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, n...
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Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
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We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is ...
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In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the...
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The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air
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The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time...
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of d...
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"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the ...
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which ar...
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We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
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We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us....
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We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vita...
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Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the his...
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There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because o...
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To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourse...
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The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, ...
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Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent,...
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Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
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The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes a...
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Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwe...
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Man's cry is to reach his fullest expression.
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Never be afraid of the moments - thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.
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Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language ...
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional ...
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If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, ...
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The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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God finds himself by creating.
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Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it d...
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically
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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
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Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
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Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for y...
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Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Wh...
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside th...
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st...
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one am...
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In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that imm...
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We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak."
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These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
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Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love...
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The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by...
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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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We live in this world when we love it.
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The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in it...
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Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation ...
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We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for real...
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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither giv...
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.
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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

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