Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

We live in the world when we love it.

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. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

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

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.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

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

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

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

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

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

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

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

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

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

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come

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

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

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.