Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

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.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

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

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

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

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.

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

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.