Rabindranath Tagore Famous Quotes
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment."
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones."
"In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth."
"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight."
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore Quotations
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Alan Alexander Milne
"To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain."
George Gordon Byron
"Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence."
Henri Estienne
"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."
Vince Lombardi
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."
Joseph Addison
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace
"'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'"
Lewis Carroll
"Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way."
Isaac Goldberg
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Frank Herbert
"As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties."
Gail Sheehy