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

—Rabindranath Tagore

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About Rabindranath Tagore

Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: [ˈrobind̪ɾonat̪ʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ] ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath - who worked as a poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and was one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and...

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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

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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

—Rabindranath Tagore

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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

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You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

—Vicomte de Chateaubriand

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Zen attacks that one last thing you hold dear: your precious self-conception. It unravels any notion of a freestanding, unconditional "I" and shows it to be a lie, a fabrication, a construction. True realization, the old masters tell us, takes bone-crushing effort. We pulverize the very skeleton of ego—upon which the meat and skin and organs of our illusions hang—and we do it through intense, hurtle-yourself-off-the-cliffs-and-into-the-chasm practice.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

—Jackie Kennedy

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