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 is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Every wall is a door.

We are all alike, on the inside.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.