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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes



Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore - (42 quotes)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Acceptance category:

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Activity category:

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Aging category:

Age considers; youth ventures. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Art category:

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Beauty category:

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Children category:

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Children category:

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Colour category:

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Creativity category:

The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Deception category:

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Desire category:

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Difficulty category:

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Earth category:

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Education category:

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Envy category:

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Faith category:

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Flow category:

-from Gitanjali...
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Freedom category:

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Friendship category:

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Goodness category:

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Greatness category:

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Humanity category:

There is only one history - the history of Man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Humour category:

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Intellect category:

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Joy category:

- disputed after verse written by Ellen Sturgis Hooper...
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Life category:

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Life category:

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Love category:

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the gate open. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Love category:

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Mistakes category:

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Modernism category:

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Music category:

Music fills the infinite between two souls. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Nature category:

-from Gitanjali...
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures... shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Optimism category:

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Perfection category:

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Possessions category:

Those who own much have much to fear. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Prayer category:

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Reality category:

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Revelation category:

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Time category:

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Truth category:

Facts are many, but the truth is one. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Unknowns category:

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown. (Rabindranath Tagore)