Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREOnce we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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