"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."

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Source : Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.411, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Rabindranath Tagore

#Inspirational Quotes #Roots Quotes #Earth Quotes

“You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.”
“Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.”
“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.”
“Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.”
“At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.”
“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.”
“We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.”
“In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.”

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