“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.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“We live in the world when we love it.”
“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.”
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
“To find God, you must welcome everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
“What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”
“Inspiration follows aspiration.”
“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”
“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.”
“Merely to exist is not enough.”
“All that is not given is lost.”
“The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”
“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
“And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”
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