Occupation: Author Birth: May 7, 1861 Death: August 7, 1941
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more..
The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong..
Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes..
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination..
The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs..
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror..
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 sho….
I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him..
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest..
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him..
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me..
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light..
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordi….
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it..
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patri….
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitu….
Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multipl….
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow do….
When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through..
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at th….
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower..