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More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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.
