Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

• Life
• Great
• Success
• Peace
• Effort
• Calm
• Selfless

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

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• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

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• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

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• I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

  

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• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

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• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

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• I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.

  

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• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

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• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

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• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

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• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

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• I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

  

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• The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

  

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• It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

  

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• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

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• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

  

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• I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric, and he knows exactly what he is doing.

  

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• In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever

  

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• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  

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• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  

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• 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.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • Success