Composer Quotes

“It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!”

“... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.”

“When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.”

“Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.”

“Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.”

“Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.”

“We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.”

“Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”

“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”

“The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”

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

“It dances today, my heart,like a peacock it dances,it dances.It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail,It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,like a peacock it dances.”

“The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.”

“If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?”

“Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.”

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”

“Truth reveals itself in beauty.”

“If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.”

“The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.”

“He alone may chastise who loves.”

“Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?”

“Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.”

“O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”

“Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”