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Quote #128

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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  1. The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.
  2. The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful na…
  3. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the s…
  4. The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, y…
  5. The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining lov…
  6. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
  7. The current of the world has its boundaries, otherwise it could have no existence, but its purpose is not shown in the boundaries which res…
  8. The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.

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  • life
  • drive
  • instinct
  • survival

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