Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Rabindranath Tagore

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• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

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• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

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• I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

  

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• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

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• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

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• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  

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• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

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• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

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• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fear