Rabindranath Tagore

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

I look up at the universe and ask, ‘What are you trying to teach me here?’ I know I won’t hear a reply, but asking the question, makes me begin looking for the answer.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.