Rabindranath Tagore

But fortunately for man the easiest path is not his truest path.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

We divide nation and nation, knowledge and knowledge, man and nature.

The sky which gives light is blue, and my mother’s face was dark, but she had the radiance of holiness, and her beauty would put to shame all the vanity of the beautiful.

In short he is painting pictures, and not writing history.

I am ever as young or as old as the youngest and the oldest of this village.

Because success is the object and justification of a machine, while goodness only is the end and purpose of man.

I sit like a beggar maid, drawing my skirt over my face, and when they ask me, what it is I want, I drop my eyes and answer them not.

It is not in the power of possession but in the power of union.

But my necessity was more for giving than for receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.

Elders have become cheap to modern children; they are too readily accessible, and so are all objects of desire.

Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?

We have felt the greatness of this people as we feel the sun; but as for the Nation, it is for us a thick mist of a stifling nature covering the sun itself.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

Essentially man is not a slave either of himself or of the world; but he is a lover.

“That is as much as to say, that you cannot light the house unless you set fire to it.”

Custard apple seeds still have the habit of sprouting, but no longer to the accompaniment of that feeling of wonder. The fault is not in the custard apple but in the mind.

I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land.

Whenever Power removes all checks from its path to make its career easy, it triumphantly rides into its ultimate crash of death.

It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.