Rabindranath Tagore
"I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea."
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"I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea."
"لقد راقبتُ على متن باخرة كيف يذعن الرجال والنساء بسهولة لغريزة المغازلة، لأن الماء يملك قوة غسل إحساسنا بالمسؤولية، فالذين يشبهون السنديان في رسوخهم على اليابسة، يتصرفون كأعشاب بحرية طافية حين يكونون في البحر."
Rabindranath Tagore
"With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more."
"بالتذلل والتكالب لا نظفر إلا بالقليل، أما بصدقنا مع ذواتنا فننال الكثير."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection."
"ليس بضربات المطرقة، بل برقص الماء تغدو الحصى كاملة الجمال."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."
"الوقت ثراء تحول، لكن الساعة في محاكاتها الساخرة تجعله مجرد تحول لا ثراء."
Rabindranath Tagore
"The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough."
"لا تحسب الفراشة الشهور بل اللحظات، ولديها من الوقت ما يكفي."
Rabindranath Tagore
"The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free."
"الأرض، جزاء خدمتها، تُبقي الشجرة موثوقة بها؛ أما السماء فلا تطلب شيئًا وتتركها حرة."
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."
"لا تقل "إنه الصباح" وتصرفه باسم من الأمس. انظر إليه للمرة الأولى كطفل حديث الولادة لا اسم له."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Men are cruel but man is kind."
"الناس قاسون، لكن الإنسان طيب."
Rabindranath Tagore
"God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane."
"إن الله، الواهب العظيم، لقادر على أن يكشف لنا الكون بأسره في فسحة ضيقة من ممر واحد."
Rabindranath Tagore
"The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist."
"يبقى الجبل راسخًا لا يتزعزع أمام هزيمة ظاهرية من الضباب."
Rabindranath Tagore
"He only may chastise who loves."
"لا يؤدّب إلا من أحبّ."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders."
"حيث تتلاشى المسارات القديمة، تنكشف آفاق جديدة بعجائبها."
Rabindranath Tagore
"God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing."
"يُكرمني الله حين أعمل، لكنه يُحبني حين أغني."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali
"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
Rabindranath Tagore
"The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga."
Rabindranath Tagore
"These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination."
Rabindranath Tagore
"The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time."
Rabindranath Tagore
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Rabindranath Tagore
"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
Rabindranath Tagore
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