Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The greatest distance in this world is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I love you.

We live in the world when we love it.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

All that is not given is lost.

Facts are many but the truth is one.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

I have become my own version of an 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.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.