Occupation: Author Birth: May 7, 1861 Death: August 7, 1941
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land o….
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry ….
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy..
Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark..
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers..
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 indiv….
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning ….
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power..
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist..
Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings….
Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger..
Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show t….
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection..
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….
The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's ….
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where ….
Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken ….
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart..
It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky wit….
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us….