11 Amazing Quotes By Asia's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore

1. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
2. I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy.
3. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
4. The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.
5. Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
6. Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
7. According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it,knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through
expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.
8. 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.
9. We live in the world when we love it.
10. We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
11. Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose
guiding spirit is personal love.