Rabindranath Tagore

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal 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.”

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

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

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

“Never be afraid of the moments—thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

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

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

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

“Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.”

“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born?”

“In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.”

“All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit — the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.”

“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.”

“Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity.”

“We have our eyes, which relate to us the vision of the physical universe. We have also an inner faculty of our own which helps us to find our relationship with the supreme self of man, the universe of personality.”

“The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking.”

“What India has been, the whole world is now. The whole world is becoming one country through scientific facility. And the moment is arriving when you also must find a basis of unity which is not political.”

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

“I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.”

“Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

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

“The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.”

“Color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.”