If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.

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I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.

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

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

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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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