Rabindranath Tagore

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks, the sky and the sunshine of our country? And I came to the conclusion that it is because with us Nature is obviously the more important thing. The sky is free, the fields limitless; and the sun merges them into one blazing whole. In the midst of this, man seems so trivial. He comes and goes, like the ferry-boat, from this shore to the other; the babbling hum of his talk, the fitful echo of his song, is heard; the slight movement of his pursuit of his own petty desires is seen in the world's market-places: but how feeble, how temporary, how tragically meaningless it all seems amidst the immense aloofness of the Universe! The contrast between the beautiful, broad, unalloyed peace of Nature—calm, passive, silent, unfathomable,—and our own everyday worries—paltry, sorrow-laden, strife-tormented, puts me beside myself as I keep staring at the hazy, distant, blue line of trees which fringe the fields across the river. Where Nature is ever hidden, and cowers under mist and cloud, snow and darkness, there man feels himself master; he regards his desires, his works, as permanent; he wants to perpetuate them, he looks towards posterity, he raises monuments, he writes biographies; he even goes the length of erecting tombstones over the dead. So busy is he that he has not time to consider how many monuments crumble, how often names are forgotten!"

"“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”"

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable."

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

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

"We live in the world when we love it."

"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

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

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

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

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."

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

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."