Rabindranath Tagore

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”

“The time has come when I must divest Bimala of all the ideal decorations with which I decked her. It was owing to my own weakness that I indulged in such idolatry. I was too greedy. I created an angel of Bimala, in order to exaggerate my own enjoyment. But Bimala is what she is. It is preposterous to expect that she should assume the role of an angel for my pleasure. The Creator is under no obligation to supply me with angels, just because I have an avidity for imaginary perfection.”

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

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

“We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander - this is untrue when stated in dry prose - oh when shall we be able to sing it? When shall all these most intimate truths of the universe overflow the pages of printed books and leap out in a sacred stream like the Ganges from the Gangotrie?”

“I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man”

“The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.”

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

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

“Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.”

“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

“I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

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

“I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet.”

“Those who own much have much to fear.”

“דברייך פורחים כשירים בכל קִנֵי ציפוריי, וזמירותייך מניצות פרחים על כל חורשותיי.”

“אם לא תאמרי דבר, אמלא שוב את לבי בשתיקתך ואכנע לה. שלֵו, אצפה לך כמו לילה אפוף כוכבים.”

“בשעה שאלוהים יצר את הגבר היה מנהל בית הספר עם נרתיק המלא מצוות ופקודות; אך בבואו ליצור את האישה, זנח את משרתו כמנהל בית ספר ונהפך לאמן, שבידו רק קופסת צבעים ומכחול.”

“אם אי אפשר לו לגבר בלא שיכרון, אל נא תהי זאת האישה.”