Birth: 1882 Death: 1927
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, ….
The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow..
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences..
He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever..
It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive,….
With love, even the rocks will open..
Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be..
A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad..
The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same tim….
I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. S….
There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The mor….
Peace is perfected activity..
I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same thing….
Selfishness keeps man blind through life..
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection ….
Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain..
When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation.
He who gives love will receive a thousandfold in return..
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality ….
Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Ha….
If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is ….