Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
RABINDRANATH TAGORECome oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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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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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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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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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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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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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
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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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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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Music fills the infinite between two souls
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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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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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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