When we are extremely humble, we are almost great.
Lift it high in the light, and tuck it away in the shadow of death.
The world kisses me with pain, and I must respond with song. —— Tagore, *Stray Birds*
The stars are not afraid of appearing like fireflies.
Happiness is like the stars; darkness cannot hide them; there will always be a gap through which they shine. —— Tagore
Life is as magnificent as summer flowers, and death as serene as autumn leaves. In this life, I truly wish to make every chapter of my existence as poetic as a painting, blooming with a smile in the gentle winds, becoming a unique landscape. —— Tagore
If you do not wait to speak the whole truth, it is easy to speak. —— Tagore, *Stray Birds*
The sky leaves no trace of the bird, but I have flown. —— Tagore, *Stray Birds*
The fingertips of the day linger hesitantly over the strings, playing a melancholy tune. —— Tagore, *Stray Birds*
If you do not speak, I will endure, and fill my heart with your silence; do not place your love so high upon a cliff!
The woodcutter's axe asks the tree for a handle, and the tree gives it.
Life should be as magnificent as summer flowers, and death as serene as autumn leaves.
Those who live merely by following rules do not advance society; they only help it sustain itself.
Compromise is not a firm foundation for any friendship.
Eternal devotion is the truth of life. —— Tagore
The distant music of summer soars through the autumn, seeking its old home.
Only then did I understand the joy of rural children, running barefoot in the scorching summer to find cicadas, or building snowmen on the frozen winter earth—a joy that adults and city children can neither understand nor attain. To them, walking barefoot on the healthy earth is like lying naked between the soft, comfortable, and sensual breasts of a mother. Summer is not hot, winter is not cold, like the intimacy of lovers, embracing through all seasons, feeling only attraction and pleasure, without any discomfort.
