“So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.”Songs of Kabir, poem XL (I.65), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source
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“Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities.”Songs of Kabir, poem LVI (I.68), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source
“Spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, and spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, and spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed.”The Golden Threshold — Song of a Dream · View source
“It is not night; it is God’s dawn.”Sandhya: Songs of Twilight — Symbolism · View source
“Rest ye feet, rest ye hands; rest bleeding hours of even.”Sandhya: Songs of Twilight — Shanti · View source
“Being of equal grace to comrades, friends, chance-comers, strangers, lovers, enemies, aliens and kinsmen; loving all alike.”The Song Celestial, Chapter VI — Edwin Arnold translation · View source
“Tenderness towards all that suffer; a contented heart.”The Song Celestial, Chapter XVI — Edwin Arnold translation · View source
“जहाँ दया तह धर्म है जहाँ लोभ तह पाप। जहाँ क्रोध तह काल है जहाँ छिमा तहाँ आप॥”English meaning: Where compassion lives, there is righteousness; where greed lives, there is wrongdoing. Anger brings ruin, while forgiveness reveals the divine.
कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४५ · View source
“देनहार कोउ और है, भेजत सो दिन-रैन। लोग भरम हम पै धरैं, याते नीचे नैन॥”English meaning: The true giver is another, sending gifts day and night; people mistakenly credit me, so I lower my eyes.
रहीम-कवितावली — दोहा ९५ · View source
“I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”Little Women, Chapter 9 — Meg Goes to Vanity Fair · View source
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”Jane Eyre, Chapter 6 · View source