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The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Related topics: Self
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We try to realize the essential unity of the world
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The meaning of our self is not to be found
in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
It is a fact that cannot be denied:
the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness
because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
- Carl Jung
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
- John Lennon
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
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