Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Put the dwarf within you to sleep.

去食、自古皆有死、民無信不立。

I’m not going anywhere. I’m not retiring. I’m not stopping. I’m just evolving.

And it doesn't seem to matter, and it doesn't seem right,
'Cause the will has brought no fortune, still I cry alone at night,
Don't you judge of my composure, 'cause I'm bothered every day,
And she didn't leave a letter, she just up and ran away.

I can't love you in the dark,
It feels like we're oceans apart.
There is so much space between us,
Baby, we're already defeated.
Ah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, everything changed me.

?It’ pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.”

The Rose that Grew from Concrete (2000)

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

?There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.