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21 " What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , Stray Birds
22 " I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers. "
23 " I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house. "
24 " Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown. "
25 " THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move. "
26 " Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart. "
27 " Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. "
28 " In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun."I leave my answers in tears upon the grass. "
29 " Do not blame your food because you have no appetite. "
30 " THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away. "
31 " I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes. "
32 " WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 58 "
33 " CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74 "
34 " Life has become richer by the love that has been lost. "
35 " MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth. "
36 " That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance? "
37 " Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night. "
38 " CANNOT choose the best. The best chooses me. "
39 " THE fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. "
40 " My heart is homesick to-day for the one sweet hour across the sea of time. "