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More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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.
I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
