“Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Glimpses of Bengal (1921)

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.”

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

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”

“The time for the healing of the wounds has come.”

“Pass by us, and forgive us our happiness.”

“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”