Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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About Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Rabindranath TagoreLove is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.