Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
– Rabindranath Tagore

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
– Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Age considers; youth ventures.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
– Rabindranath Tagore

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
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Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
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The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the
moral plane to the spiritual.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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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

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

Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved. Side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and all gravity of thought and action is lost; such excitement is not an exercise of strength, but a display of weakness.
– Rabindranath Tagore

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts… You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
– Rabindranath Tagore

God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Our passions and desires are unruly, but our character subdues these elements into a harmonious whole.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experience, through our illumined consciousness – how, otherwise, can we know truth?
– Rabindranath Tagore

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are. Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words. Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you. Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart.
– Rabindranath Tagore

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
– Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
– Rabindranath Tagore

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
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Inspiration follows aspiration.
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
– Rabindranath Tagore

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with out fruits with joy.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by prosperous people who now control the world. We still believe that the world has a deeper meaning than what is apparent, and that therein the human soul finds its ultimate harmony and peace. We still know that only in spiritual wealth does civilization attain its end, not in a prolific production of materials, and not in the competition of intemperate power with power.
– Rabindranath Tagore

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

When we define a man by the market value of the service we can expect of him, we know him imperfectly.
– Rabindranath Tagore

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Children are living beings – more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
– Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
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The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate idea, if we do not see the infinite rest and only see the infinite motion, then existence appears to us a monstrous evil, impetuously rushing towards an unending aimlessness.
– Rabindranath Tagore

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform… Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
– Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
– Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
– Rabindranath Tagore