Rabindranath Tagore

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Age considers; youth ventures.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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

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

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

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

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

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

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

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.