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Rabindranath Tagore

1861-1941. Indian philosopher and poet (Nobel Prize in 1913).

1. "Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

categories: God and Religion

2. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

categories: Dreams and Desires

3. "Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor."

categories: Truth and Falsity

4. "Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations."

categories: Richness and Money

5. "What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Reality and Imagination

6. "We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

categories: Freedom and Servitude

7. "We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live."

categories: Freedom and Servitude

8. "Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

categories: Nature and Animals

9. "To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

categories: Oration and Silence -:- Truth and Falsity

10. "Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."

categories: Time and Passing

11. "Those who own much have much to fear."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Richness and Money

12. "Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself."

categories: God and Religion

13. "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."

categories: Truth and Falsity

14. "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

categories: Education

15. "The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play."

categories: Life and Death

16. "The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air."

categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals

17. "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Time and Passing

18. "That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life."

categories: Life and Death

19. "Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living."

categories: Life and Death

20. "Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation [...]."

categories: God and Religion

21. "Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn."

categories: Nature and Animals

22. "Never be afraid of the moments; thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting."

categories: Time and Passing

23. "Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed."

categories: History and Nations -:- Patriotism

24. "Music fills the infinite between two souls."

categories: Art and Culture

25. "Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God."

categories: Happiness -:- Human

26. "Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy."

categories: Life and Death -:- Love

27. "Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."

categories: Love

28. "Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation."

categories: Love

29. "Love gives beauty to everything it touches."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love

30. "Life, moral or physical, is not a completed fact, but a continual process, depending for its movement upon two contrary forces, the force of resistance and that of expression."

categories: Life and Death

31. "Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs."

categories: Life and Death

32. "Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."

categories: Life and Death

33. "Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."

categories: Love -:- Success and Fame

34. "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."

categories: Dreams and Desires

35. "In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life."

categories: Life and Death

36. "If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

37. "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

categories: Pain and Tears

38. "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death

39. "He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."

categories: Love -:- Good and Evil

40. "He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

categories: Good and Evil

41. "Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

categories: God and Religion

42. "Facts are many, but the truth is one."

categories: Truth and Falsity

43. "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity."

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Human

44. "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

categories: Life and Death

45. "Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Truth and Falsity

46. "All that is not given is lost."

categories: Richness and Money -:- Various

47. "Age considers; youth ventures."

categories: Youth and Age

48. "A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."

categories: Joy and Sadness

49. "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

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