Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, social reformer, philosopher, painter during the Bengal Renaissance.
1. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
2. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
3. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
4. "The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable."
5. “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
6. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
7. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
8. “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
9. “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
10. “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”