"I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man."

"Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read..."

"Men are cruel but man is kind."

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."

"Age considers; youth ventures."

"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

"Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experiences, through our illumined consciousness - how, otherwise, can we know Truth?"

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"We live in the world when we love it."

"Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders."

"Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation."

"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers."

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable."

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

"He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open."

"The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness, the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity."

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."

"Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can't be satisfiedshall take a look at the world in broad daylight."

"Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

"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."

"We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that reflects no light, that is blind to the infinite. Our self is loud with its own discordant clamour - it is not the tuned harp whose chords vibrate with the music of the eternal. Sighs of discontent and weariness of failure, idle regrets for the past and anxieties for the future are troubling our shallow hearts because we have not found our souls, and the self-revealing spirit has not been manifest within us. Hence our cry."

"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."

"Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted."

"The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga."

"The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."

"The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist."

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

"Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love."

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

"Age considers youth ventures."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination."

"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."

"Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices."

"I have felt that you have been able to assimilate these secrets into your life, and the truth which lies in the beauty of all things has passed into your souls. A mere knowledge of things can be had in a short enough time, but their spirit can only be acquired by centuries of training and self-control."

"I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart."

"I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet."

"God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane."

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition."

"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."

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

"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, butfor the heart to conquer it."

"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."

"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."