Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

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.