“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Love … waits to be accepted.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“We live in the world when we love it.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“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.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“I have become my own version of an optimist.
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.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“We try to realize the essential unity of the world
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“The meaning of our self is not to be found
in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realization of union.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Age considers; youth ventures.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ——Rabindranath Tagore
“Indeed, it is a great pity that Europeans have come to us as imperialists rather than as Christians and so have deprived our people of their true contact with the religion of Jesus Christ…What a mental torture it is to know that men are capable of loving each other and adding to one another’s joy, and yet would not!” ——Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore