Occupation: Author Birth: May 7, 1861 Death: August 7, 1941
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my ….
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life..
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good..
Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved..
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is….
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that ….
When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find ou….
Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restless….
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the t….
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child..
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishne….
Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary an….
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung..
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind i….
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary ….
Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom..
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict..
Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
Do not blame the food because you have no appetite..
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well..
If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative..