Tag Archives: Epigram

Five Wise Lines from Tagore’s Stray Birds

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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Stray birds — #48

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

Stray birds — #154

The eyes are not proud of their sight but of their eyeglasses.

stray birds — #256

I carry in my world that flourishes the worlds that have failed.

stray birds — #121

Delusions of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.

stray birds — #14

CITATION: Tagore, Rabindranath (1916), Stray Birds, New York: McMillan, 92pp.

Available on Project Gutenberg at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6524

5 Thought-Provoking Quotes I’ve Read Recently

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Nothing records the effects of a sad life as graphically as the human body.

Naguib mahfouz (in Palace of desire)

Religion is recognized by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius annaeus seneca (via edward gibbon)

Comparison is the thief of joy.

theodore roosevelt

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Epicurean Epitaph

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

william james

Three Little Lost Thoughts [Free Verse]

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When one loses one's keys,
they're always the last place you had them,
but when you find yourself -
more often than not -
it's someplace you've never been before.

There's love that isn't 
love at first sight, 
but there's also beauty that's not 
beautiful at first sight.

Humans are the most absurd creatures,
and our competition includes 
animals that lick their own butts.

POEM: Finding Your Zen through Travel [PoMo Day 30 – Epigram]

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Pray for smooth travels...
but not too smooth;
bad experiences make good stories.


II
Mother nature is the kind of
mother who doesn't play favorites.


III
Fairness and simplicity are fine, but
the solution that works may be neither.


IV
Difficulties only ruin
trips attitudinally doomed.


V
Think of lost luggage as an exercise
in creative decision making.

POEM: Advice to Travelers

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When traveling adopt a student’s mindset;

when studying adopt a traveler’s mindset.

Eat the exotic.

Drink the exotic.

Dance the exotic.

Think the exotic.