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Rabindranath Tagore ( 1861 ~ 1941 )

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.


Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.


Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.


Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.


Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.


The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.


If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.


Age considers; youth ventures.


The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.


I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.


Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.


Memorable Quotes

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

We live in the world when we love it.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

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