The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREHe who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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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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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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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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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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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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