Rabindranath Tagore

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.”

“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”

“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.”

“Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.”

“Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”

“Where roads are made I lose my way.”

“I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish — no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears.”

“Bid me and I shall gather my fruits to bring them in full baskets into your courtyard, though some are lost and some not ripe.”

“He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow.”

“I have lost touch with the marrow of my own life, and I beg of you to take this dust to your light.”

“Bigness is not greatness; vast extent is not infinity.”

“It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.”

“The world does not become real to us until love comes and turns it into an active reality.”

“By the help of science we are getting a freer and freer outlook upon life. The savage state has been transcended.”

“Things are what they are because of their relations to other things; we cannot understand the world by isolating ourselves from it.”

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”