Quotations of Ravindra Nath Tagore

 
Today Guru Dev Ravindra Nath Tagore birthday. 
Birth date: 8th May 1861
Birthplace: Kolkota , India.
Occupation: poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, thespian, educationist, spiritualist, philosopher, internationalist, cultural relativist, orator, composer,song-writer, singer, artist.
Notable award : Nobel prize in literature.(1913)
Died: 7th August 1941
Today we must remember his quotations. 
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
 I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
 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.
We live in the world when we love it.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
There are two kinds of adventurers; those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.
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.