Occupation: Author Birth: May 7, 1861 Death: August 7, 1941
The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song.
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nat….
I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away ….
The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music..
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come..
Men are cruel, but Man is kind..
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 wo….
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 si….
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it..
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure..
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself..
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away..
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness..
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to si….
The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a cresce….
Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what ….
I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the….
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous..
It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed..
Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy..