“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”
More from Rabindranath Tagore on Life
“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”
“When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.”
“Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.”
“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.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”
“With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“Age considers youth ventures.”
“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.”
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”