I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.