Tagore

At times, many a things that happen around me frustrate me a lot. Some can be changed and I try a lot for that. Some cannot be changed because I don't have the power to do them or they have gone so worse that they cannot be changed at all. In these instances, I only think of the following lines written by Rabindranath Tagore:

Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.