Quote by Rabindranath Tagore: “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

Grief for what is lost can blind you to what is still present. When one source of light or joy disappears, the pain is real — but if you stay only in that grief, you miss the other, subtler beauties that remain. Loss and remaining gifts can coexist if you let them.

Tagore's Gitanjali, translated into English, won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and introduced South Asian philosophy and spirituality to a wide Western audience. Tagore had experienced profound personal loss in the years before writing the collection, including the deaths of his wife, son, and daughter.

Bengali poet, philosopher, and artist from Calcutta who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His collection Gitanjali, a sequence of devotional poems, brought him international recognition. He founded the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.