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Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

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 entrance?

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

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.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

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

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

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

The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

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; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.