“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
“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.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”
“We live in the world when we love it.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
“The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”
“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”
“"Yo are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake.”
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“To find God, you must welcome everything.”
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”
“I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”
“A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”
“Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
“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.”
“What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”
“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”
“There is no “next” after you are dead and gone from your own world.”
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
“When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.”
“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
“Inspiration follows aspiration.”
“Merely to exist is not enough.”
“The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”
“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
“All that is not given is lost.”
“And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”
“The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.”
“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”
“You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.”
“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”
“Repentance is a gift of God’s grace.”
“The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don’t know that I Love You.”
“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.”
“Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It’s important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.”
“The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”
“The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.”
“Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”
“Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
“O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”
“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”
“Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.”
“In death the many become one; in life the one become many.”
“The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.”
“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”
“I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.”
“The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”
“Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”
“God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.”
“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”
“If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.”
“Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.”
“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.”
“Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.”
“O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.”
“My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”
“Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.”
“Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.”
“My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”
“Death’s stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.”
“Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
“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.”
“This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.”
“Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones – the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”
“Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.”
“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.”
“We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.”
“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
“Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”
“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
“This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.”
“The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.”
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