| "Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness Rabindranath Tagore |
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| "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Age considers; youth ventures. Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| All that is not given is lost. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Rabindranath Tagore |
| By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess. 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 Rabindranath Tagore |
| Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or Usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Rabindranath Tagore Popular Quotes |
| Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore |
| For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support. Rabindranath Tagore |
| From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest Rabindranath Tagore |
| God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. Rabindranath Tagore |
| He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open. Rabindranath Tagore |
| I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play Rabindranath Tagore |
| 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 |
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 Adages |
| 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 ex Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore |
| In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Rabindranath Tagore |
| In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin Rabindranath Tagore |
| In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life. Rabindranath Tagore |
| In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travelers to cross their strictly guarded borders Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Rabindranath Tagore Popular Quotes |
| Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwelling houses. To be able to love material things, to clothe them with tender grace, and yet not be attached to them, this is a great service. Providen Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| 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 Adages |
| Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. Rabindranath Tagore Popular Quotes |
| Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Music fills the infinite between two souls Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Never be afraid of the moments - thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting. Rabindranath Tagore |
| No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi Rabindranath Tagore |
| Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living. Rabindranath Tagore |
| 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 s Rabindranath Tagore |
| The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons Rabindranath Tagore |
| The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love. Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. Rabindranath Tagore |
| The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore |
| The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, but that it depends upon him to turn it into good account, that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy... Man's freedom is never in being sav Rabindranath Tagore |
| The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize. Rabindranath Tagore |
| The picture of a flower in a botanical book is information; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a personal communication. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the depth of our personality it misses the mark. We can treat Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
| The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate? Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. Rabindranath Tagore |
| The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. from Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder. Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed. Rabindranath Tagore |
| The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. Rabindranath Tagore Popular Quotes |
| The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv Rabindranath Tagore |
| There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| 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. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Those who own much have much to fear Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life. Rabindranath Tagore Quotations |
| Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live. Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Rabindranath Tagore |
| We [poets] set men free from their desires. Rabindranath Tagore |
| What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Rabindranath Tagore |
| Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. Rabindranath Tagore |
| When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Then only can he see that what is unpleasant to us is no Rabindranath Tagore Sayings |
| When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints Rabindranath Tagore |
| When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. Rabindranath Tagore |
| When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| Where the mind is without fear and the head is 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 in 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. Rabindranath Tagore Remarks |
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years. Rabindranath Tagore |
| You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Rabindranath Tagore Adages |
| Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. Rabindranath Tagore |
