I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
by Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Sayings by Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life Sayings
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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