"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
 

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

"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."
 

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

"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
 

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

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

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

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
 

"The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence."
 

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
 

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
 

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
 

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
 

"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."
 

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
 

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

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

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."
 

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
 

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
 

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

"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."
 

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

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."
 

"We live in the world when we love it."
 

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

Written by Rabindranath Tagore 

More Motivational Quotes:

• Wayne Dyer

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
 
• Joyce Meyer

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.
 
• Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.