Rabindranath Tagore

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

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

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.