Rabindranath Tagore, (1861 - 1941) Quotes

Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service happiness is found.

Let my love like sunlight surround you, yet give you illumined freedom.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

He only may chastise who loves.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Do not say,it is morning, and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

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

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.