"You cannot cross the sea merely by..." - Rabindranath Tagore

🦉 Wisdom

“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

Tagore insists that achievement requires action, not passive contemplation.

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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

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“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

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“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”

— Jean Paul Richter

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

— Baltasar Gracián

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

— Seneca

“Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese Proverb

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

— William Butler Yeats

“Well begun is half done.”

— Aristotle