Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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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 terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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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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Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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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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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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