* Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
* I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
* Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
* Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
* To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
* Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
* Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
* Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.
* I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
* You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
* When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
* It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
* Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Compilation Courtesy : Aparna Chatterjee
