Rabindranath Tagore
Indian poet, Nobel laureate
Sayings by Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
The world has its leave-taking in the murmur of the sea.
My mind is a vagrant, and I have no home.
The water in the river is not the same water that was there a moment ago.
The tree is a an endless prayer, said in the language of leaves.
God says to man: I created you because I love to be.
The world rushes on, and I am left behind, a solitary wanderer, dreaming of the past.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
The sleep of the ignorant is an awakening of the wise.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
The less you have, the more free you are.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
The morning will come, the sun will rise, and we will try again.
The flower that has opened will not close.
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give freedom to a caged bird.
The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.