Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941),was a Bengali poet, philosopher and Modern anti-nationalists. He became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
803. He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
804. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
805. Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.
806. Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
807. Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
808. If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
809. In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
810. Inspiration follows aspiration.
811. Facts are many, but the truth is one.
682. 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.
682. 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.
683. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
684. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
685. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
686. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
687. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
688. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
695. The greed for fruit misses the flower.
696. 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.
697. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
698. 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.
699. Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
700. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
