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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have become my own version of an optimist.
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We try to realize the essential unity of the world
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.
- Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The meaning of our self is not to be found
in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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