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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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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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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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 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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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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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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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.
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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
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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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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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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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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls
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