The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREI 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.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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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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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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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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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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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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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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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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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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