# Tagore on the invisible work before every opportunity

2026-08-13T16:19:07+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk

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Rabindranath Tagore's quote "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it" from his 1913 Harvard lectures in *Sadhana: The Realisation of Life* has been revisited. The Times of India explains that the line is not about relentless pursuit but about quietly becoming ready, developing skills, maturity or knowledge, long before an opportunity arrives. Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate in Literature that same year, suggests that desire alone is never enough; preparation changes what a person can even notice, let alone seize. The comment warns against reading it as a guarantee: chance and circumstance still matter.

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- timesofindia.indiatimes.com <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/quote-of-the-day-by-rabindranath-tagore-everything-comes-to-us-that-belongs-to-us-if-we-a-lesson-on-preparation-patience-and-being-ready-when-opportunity-arrives/articleshow/133206492.cms>

Tags: Nobel Prize, opportunity, personal growth, preparation, Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana
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