"To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root."

"When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy, when you go smile and let the world cry for you."

"Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not."

"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."

"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

"Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

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

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."

"Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

"A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued."

"Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection."

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

"Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal."

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

"The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken."

"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

"The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails."

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

"The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free."

"His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room."

"God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing."

"When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy.When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song.When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king.When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder."

"YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake."

"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."

"My husband would not give me an opportunity for worship. That was his greatness. They are cowards who claim absolute devotion from their wives as their right, that is a humiliation for both."

"With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more."

"Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness."

"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."

"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

"When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself."

"Those who own much have much to fear."

"Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight."

"If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa."

"He only may chastise who loves."

"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

"I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders."

"I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea."

"A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it."

"The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time."

"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."

"I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing."

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

"I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your household duties, living your life in the world of household conventions and the drudgery of household tasks - you were not made for that! If we meet, and recognize each other, in the real world, then only will our love be true."