Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature, 1861-1941
10 quotes.
Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
- 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 and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- I have thanked the trees that have made my life fruitful, but have failed to remember the grass that has ever kept it green.
- I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
- If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
- Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
- Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Not hammerstrokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
- You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.