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.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Interpretation
True friendship reveals its strength during tough times.
Rabindranath Tagore's quote emphasizes that genuine friendship is most valuable and visibly shines during difficult moments in life. Like fluorescence that becomes more apparent in darkness, true friends reveal their loyalty and support when challenges arise, proving that real bonds are tested and strengthened in adversity.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of relationships, I would quote Tagore to highlight the strength of true friendship.
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.
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
I take friendship very seriously.
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him
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