Rabindranath Tagore

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

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

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

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

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

“Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”

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

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

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

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

“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.”

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

“Age considers youth ventures.”

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

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”

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

“Those who own much have much to fear.”

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

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

“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”