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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#great #humility #nearest

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

#earth #effort #endless #heaven #listening

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#gray hairs #hairs #hold #signs #speak

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#emancipation #freedom #soil #tree

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#blowing #candle #come #day #flame

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#disturb #every #ghost #later #over

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#impulse #law #love #love is #mere

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#i #laugh #lightened #myself #self

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#flower #need #numerous #single #thorns

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#call #creative #man #real #response