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

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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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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 highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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

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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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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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