Rabindranath Tagore

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Branching streams cannot compare to the source.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

What is once well done is done forever.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.