Oscar Wilde
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you
Rabindranath Tagore
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Rabindranath Tagore
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Rabindranath Tagore
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
Rabindranath Tagore
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
Rabindranath Tagore
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Rabindranath Tagore
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
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.
Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Oscar Wilde
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Rabindranath Tagore
The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.
Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.
Oscar Wilde
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Rabindranath Tagore
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Rabindranath Tagore
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But. it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Osho
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy.
Robert Frost
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Osho
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.
Robert Frost
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Osho
As long as the “I” is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Osho
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.