“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, section 77

About Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941

Bengali poet, novelist and composer, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.”

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”