“Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”
“In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”
Source: Poems
“Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.”
“This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.”
“Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”
Source: Poems
“... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”
Source: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats
“I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.”
Source: The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel
“Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)
“Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”
“Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.”
Source: Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore
“Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.”
“The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.”
Source: Stray Birds
“When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.”
“I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.”
“Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.”
“Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.”
Source: Poems
“Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”
“There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.”
Source: Plays, stories
“Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.”
“O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”
Source: Poems
“Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.”
Source: Nationalism
“Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.”
Source: Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore
“Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.”
Source: Fireflies
“Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”
Source: Stray Birds
“If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.”
Source: The Wreck
“The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.”
“In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.”
“Merely to exist is not enough.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”
Source: Three Plays: Mukta-dhara, Natir Puja, Chandalika
“Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.”
Source: Poems
“I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”
Source: Poems
“The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.”
Source: The Home and the World
“Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.”
Source: The Jewel that is Best: Collected Brief Poems
“Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.”
Source: Poems
“Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.”
Source: The Cycle of Spring
“It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.”
Source: Poems
“Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.”
Source: 失群的鳥
“A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”
Source: Fireflies
“My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.”
“The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”
Source: Poems
“A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy”
Source: Essays
“The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
