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About this quote

What does it mean?
Live life with grace and lightness within the fleeting flow of time.
In plain terms
Move through life lightly and gracefully like dew on a leaf.
What can you take from it?
Embrace impermanence with ease.

Where it applies

  • personal growth
  • art
  • mindfulness

Putting it to work

  • practice lightness
  • accept change
  • find beauty

Questions to consider

  • How do you carry yourself?
  • Can you find lightness in hard times?

Another view

It may seem dismissive of serious burdens people carry.

More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. ~ 31

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  2. To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. ~ 45

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  3. Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes. ~ 27

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