RABINDRANATH TAGORE

 

• “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.”
•  “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.” 
• “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” 
• “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” 
• “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.” 
• “Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” 
• “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” 
• “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” 
• “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
• 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.” 
• “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.” 
• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” 
• “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
  Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” 
• “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.” 
• “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” 
• “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.” 
• You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
• We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.” 
• “If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” 
• “Music fills the infinite between two souls”
• “The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition” 
• “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
  while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” 
• “We live in the world when we love it.” 
• “The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”