When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
RT Rabindranath TagorePoet · 1861–1941Wat dit citaat betekent
Lived fully, even a short span is enough. Measuring life in vivid moments rather than months makes any life feel abundant.
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Bengali poet and the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, who wrote on faith, freedom, and joy.
This line is among the quotes by Rabindranath Tagore that readers return to on dankbaarheid — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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