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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes: 23

We live in the world when we love it.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Stray Birds
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake.
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
Lover's Gift
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Gitanjali: Song Offerings