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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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  1. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
  2. Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space…
  3. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the hea…
  4. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
  5. Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.
  6. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
  7. It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realisation, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the i…
  8. Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.

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  • purpose
  • service
  • giving
  • value

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