Biography
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
- Born: 7th May 1861
- Birthplace: Calcutta, India
- Died: 7th Aug 1941
- Location of death: Calcutta, India
- Cause of death: unspecified
- Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered in the River Ganges)
- Ethnicity: Bengali
- Occupation: Poet, Playwright, Novelist
- Nationality: India
- Parents: Debendranath Tagore(father) Sarada Devi(mother)
- Wife: Mrinalini Devi (m. 1993, d. 1902)
- Children: five children, two of them died in childhood
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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