Rabindranath Tagore

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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

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

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.

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Age considers; youth ventures.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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

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