"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
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"Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light."
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"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones."
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"A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame."
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"I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you."
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"It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances."
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"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
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"The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You."
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"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure."
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"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
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"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
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"Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity."
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"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "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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"The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again."
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"Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own."
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"Love gives beauty to everything it touches."
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"The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind."
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"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."
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"There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv"
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