"Oh! what are the brightest that e'er have blown To the lote-tree, springing by Alla's throne, Whose flowers have a so…"

"Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light."

"Eyes pure and broad like the blue lotus; mind pure, steeped in meditations; for pure deeds long accumulated, boundles…"

"My philosophy is to use the stones hurled at me to make a bridge for myself; I believe in proving my critics wrong th…"

"Sikander burnt all books the same wise as fire burns hay. All the scintillating works faced destruction in the same m…"

"Where drooping lotos-flowers, distilling balm, Dream by the drowsy streamlets sleep hath crown'd, While Care forgets …"

"The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the ni…"

"Stone lotus cups, with petals dipped in sand."

"They wove the lotus band to deck And fan with pensile wreath their neck."

"A spring there is, whose silver waters show Clear as a glass the shining sands below: A flowering lotos spreads its a…"