Saturday, December 4, 2010

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotes:

To enjoy something, it's essential to guard it with the fence of leisure.

It's difficult to know a person until he turns twenty-five---difficult to say what would happen to him ... but it is easy to recognise a twenty seven years old--- it can be said he's become what he's supposed to be, and from now on this is how his life would be guided, there isn't left anything in his life to get astonished.

I believe in the true meeting of the East and the West.
It hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings loud against the West in my country with the clamour that the Western education can only injure us.

I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give everything to be one with my surroundings. I love my fellow beings and I prize their love.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I have become my own version of optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.