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.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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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.
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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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.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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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.
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