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61 " If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , The Post Office
62 " Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims
63 " He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. "
― Rabindranath Tagore
64 " Facts are many, but the truth is one. "
65 " Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. "
66 " The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. "
67 " The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. "
68 " Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "
69 " We live in the world when we love it. "
70 " Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. "
71 " Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , Gitanjali
72 " This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love. "
73 " আমরা আরম্ভ করি, শেষ করি না; আড়ম্বর করি, কাজ করি না; যাহা অনুষ্ঠান করি তাহা বিশ্বাস করি না; যাহা বিশ্বাস করি তাহা পালন করি না; ভূরিপরিমাণ বাক্যরচনা করিতে পারি, তিলপরিমাণ আত্মত্যাগ করিতে পারি না; আমরা অহংকার দেখাইয়া পরিতৃপ্ত থাকি, যোগ্যতালাভের চেষ্টা করি না; আমরা সকল কাজেই পরের প্রত্যাশা করি, অথচ পরের ত্রুটি লইয়া আকাশ বিদীর্ণ করিতে থাকি; পরের অনুকরণে আমাদের গর্ব, পরের অনুগ্রহে আমাদের সম্মান, পরের চক্ষে ধূলিনিক্ষেপ করিয়া আমাদের পলিটিকস্, এবং নিজের বাক্চাতুর্যে নিজের প্রতি ভক্তিবিহ্বল হইয়া উঠাই আমাদের জীবনের প্রধান উদ্দেশ্য। "
74 " Unless this boy is claimed by the one who gave him to me, I’ll die rather than let anyone else take him away. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , Gora
75 " I let everyone know that I don’t follow any restrictions, and suffer everyone’s contempt in silence. "
76 " If there are a few good people in the world, let them be, but may all others remain natural. Otherwise, work can’t go on, nor can the soul survive. "
77 " The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. "
― Rabindranath Tagore , Stray Birds
78 " when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you. "
79 " The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning. "
80 " To the Goddess? Then I cannot blame him. For a man loses his humanity when it concerns his gods. "