The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
RABINDRANATH TAGORELove’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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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.
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.
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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.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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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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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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