“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”Rabindranath Tagore · Păsări răzlețe · 1916 · 82
Live like summer flowers, holding nothing back, and receive death as a leaf that frees the tree.
Tagore asks for an attitude, not a prediction: live fully, colorfully, without stinginess, the way summer withholds nothing from its flowers. And let death be received as the natural turn of the cycle, not as violence. Autumn leaves do not die tragically; they free the tree for another year. Someone who spends their good years timidly, postponing every joy, breaks exactly this program.
Why it matters It offers a compass for big decisions: better an intense life and an accepted ending than a fearful rationing of existence.