"Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky."
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"A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them."
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"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free."
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"Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you."
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"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."
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"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."
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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."
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"... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living."
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"The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy."
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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
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"The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact."
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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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"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
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"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!"
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"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
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"Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live."
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"The false can never grow into truth by growing in power."
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"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness"
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"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves."
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