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

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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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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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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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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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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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