Quotes by
Tagore |
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 , Indian poet, Nobel 1913
He was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter. Referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”, he is the author of the collection of poems titled Gitanjali.In 1913 Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize.
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Quotations
| • | It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. 3 |
| • | The universe is stingy for anyone who denies himself. 3 |
| • | Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 3 |
| • | Immersed in pleasures, you stop feeling any pleasure. 2 |
| • | A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. 2 |
| • | The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact. 2 |
| • | Advice is like medicine: the bitterest is often the best. 1 |
| • | Music fills the infinite between two souls. 1 |
| • | With the power of will, man changes himself. With the power of love, he changes others. With the power of thought, he changes the world. 1 |
| • | I slept and dreamed that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. |
| • | The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. |
| • | Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. |
| • | If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. |
| • | Love is an eternal mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. |
| • | Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you. |
| • | Love gives beauty to everything it touches. |
| • | Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. |