132 quotes found
Bengali polymath · 1861–1941
Bengali polymath (1861–1941)
“Age considers youth ventures.”
“Men are cruel but man is kind.”
“Age considers youth ventures. ”
“He only may chastise who loves.”
“Those who own much have much to fear.”
“Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.”
“Unending LoveI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...In life after life, in age after age, forever.My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,That you ta...”
“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
“I have felt that you have been able to assimilate these secrets into your life, and the truth which lies in the beauty of all things has passed into your souls. A mere knowledge of things can be ha...”
“I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks, the sky and the sunshine of our country? And I came to the conclusion that it is because with us...”
“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art m...”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.”
“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake.”
“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”
“The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”
“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.”
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”