Action Quotes

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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

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The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

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I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may wel...more

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When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

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His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is ...more

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Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

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With you it is always the law, never equity.

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The time has come when I must divest Bimala of all the ideal decorations with which I decked her. It was owing to my own weakness that I indulged in s...more

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We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak.""Women weak!" I exclaimed with a laugh. "Men belaud you ...more

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My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you," h...more

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I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your household duties, living your life in the world of...more

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Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--in...more

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To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial b...more

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A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

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A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw...more

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If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the e...more

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Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their go...more

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.

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Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

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Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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Give all to love obey thy heart.

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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beaut...more

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What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.