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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- 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
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- 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
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 ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- 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
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- 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
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- 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
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- 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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- 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
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
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- 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
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
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
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)
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