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Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- 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
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- 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 only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- 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
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- 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
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- 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
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it.
- 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
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- 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
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
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- 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
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
Death is the final opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer
When you cry and weep,
when you are miserable,
you are alone.
When you celebrate,
the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration
do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration
do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
- Osho
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
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