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More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.
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.
That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.
Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
