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.“

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance”

“Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.”

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.”

“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

“I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things”

“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”

“When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

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

“Inspiration follows aspiration.”

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my
house—do not pass by like a dream.”

“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

“Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”

“Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

“And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To Find in the left one
Its consolation.”

“Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?”

“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.”

“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

“My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.”