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.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREGod waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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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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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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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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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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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 can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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We live in the world when we love 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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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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