Rabindranath Tagore

“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.”

“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.”

“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”

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

“Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.”

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in that of a man, by ambition.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling-place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.”

“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart.”

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

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

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

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