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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.
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.
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.
You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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.
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore
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.