Rabindranath Tagore Zitate

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11 zeitlose Gedanken über Glück, Glauben und die Schönheit des Alltags

„Ich schlief und träumte, das Leben sei Freude.
Ich erwachte und sah, das Leben war Pflicht.
Ich handelte, und siehe, die Pflicht war Freude.“

„Sie können das Meer nicht einfach überqueren, indem Sie stehen und auf das Wasser starren.“

„Wolken schweben aus anderen Tagen in mein Leben, nicht länger, um Regen oder Sturm abzuwerfen, sondern um meinem Sonnenuntergangshimmel Farbe zu verleihen.“

„Weine nicht, wenn die Sonne aus deinem Leben untergeht, denn die Tränen lassen dich die Sterne nicht sehen.“

„Wenn du Tränen vergießt, wenn du die Sonne vermisst, vermisst du auch die Sterne.“

„Ich will jedoch nicht zögern, das Große in Europa anzuerkennen, denn Großes hat es ohne Zweifel. Wir können nicht anders als es von Herzen lieben und bewundern – dies Europa, von dem sich in Kunst und Literatur ein unerschöpflicher Strom von Schönheit und Wahrheit ergießt, alle Länder und Zeiten befruchtend; dies Europa, das mit titanischem Geiste in nie ermüdender Kraft die Höhen und Tiefen des Weltalls durchmißt, das unendlich Große und unendlich Kleine mit seinem Wissen umfaßt und alle Kräfte von Herz und Verstand dazu verwendet, die Kranken zu heilen und all das Elend zu mildern, das wir bis jetzt in hoffnungsloser Resignation hinnahmen, dies Europa, das die Erde dahin bringt, uns mehr Frucht zu spenden, als möglich schien, indem es mit Güte und Gewalt alle großen Kräfte der Natur in den Dienst des Menschen zwingt.“

„DER GLEICHE Strom des Lebens, // der Tag und Nacht durch meine Adern // fließt, fließt durch die Welt und tanzt in // rhythmischen Maßen.“

„Müde schlief ich auf müßigem Bette // Im Wahn, daß die Arbeit ein Ende hätte. // Am Morgen, da wachte ich auf und fand, // Daß mein Garten voll Blumenwundern stand.“

„Das Hauptziel des Lehrens ist nicht, Bedeutungen zu erklären, sondern an die Tür des Geistes zu klopfen.“

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

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

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

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”

“Music fills the infinite between two souls”

“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.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”

“WE live in this world when we love it.”

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

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

“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.”

“The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”

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

“We cross infinity with every step;
we meet eternity in every second.”

“Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.”

“Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”

“The song I came to sing
remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true,
the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony
of wishing in my heart…”

“My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.”

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

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.”

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”

“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”