The classic quotes from Rabindranath Tagore's Birds Collection are as follows:

1. Faith is a bird. When the dawn is still dark, it feels the light and sings.

2. Your idols have been scattered in the dust, which proves that God’s dust is greater than your idols.

3. The world I have come to along the way has been nourished by many setbacks in life.

4. Those who carry lamps on their backs cast their shadows in front of themselves.

5. Grass, although your steps are small, you own the land under your feet.

6. Let me imagine that among the stars, there is a star that guides my life through the unknowable darkness.

7. Love is a fulfilled life, just like a wine glass filled with wine.

8. Those who want to be good are knocking at the door; those who love others see the door open.

9. Flowers bloom silently in the night, leaving praise to the day.

10. What oppresses me, is it my soul that wants to go out, or is it the soul of the world, knocking on the door of my heart, wanting to come in?

11. You smiled slightly and said nothing to me. And I feel that I have been waiting for this for a long time.

12. The sparrow saw the peacock carrying its feathers and felt worried for it.

13. In my life, there are areas of poverty and silence. They are the few open spaces where I get daylight and air during my busy days.

14. When we are extremely humble, that is when we are closest to greatness.

15. People go into the noisy crowd in order to drown their own silent cry.

16. Although the road is crowded, it is lonely because it has not tasted love.

17. We see the world wrong and say it deceives us.