Man’s cry is to reach his fullest expression.

We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vitality.

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter...

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire – all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation,...

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 heart to conquer it. Let me...

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed

The picture of a flower in a botanical book is information; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a personal communication. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the...

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So...

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection… But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach truth, not through feeling it...

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read…

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power...

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of...

Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without,...

The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;…Where the clear stream of reason has not...

Aku lari bagai musang lari dalam bayang-bayang rimba, gila dengan wanginya sendiri. Malamnya malam pertengahan Mei dan anginnya angin selatan. Aku kehilangan jala dan aku pun mengelana. Aku mencari apa yang tak bisa kudapat, aku...

If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our...

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man’s civilization is built upon his surplus… In everyday...

Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving...

Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed from the side of the obstacle, nature appears inimical to the idea of...

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,’said the dewdrop to the lake.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were in complete harmony. But when there came the separation of the...

The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by prosperous people who now control the world. We still believe that the world has a...

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Never be afraid of the moments – thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.

We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us. Man is reaping success every day, and that shows there is a rational connection between him and nature, for...

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in...

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform… Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.

Set the bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.