47 quotes
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
"The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough."
on Life
"Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
on Death
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
on Love
"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."
"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
on Faith
"Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection."
on Nature
"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
"With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more."
"The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
on Truth
"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
"Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."
on Time
"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."
"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."
"Men are cruel but man is kind."
on Compassion
"God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane."
