Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
“The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions.”
“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.”
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
Quotes About Rabindranath Tagore :
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
“The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
“The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
Rabindranath Tagore Quotations :
“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free.”
“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
“The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened.”
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
“We live in the world when we love it.”
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore Thoughts :
“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”
“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”
“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”
“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.”
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort — these are what make for human greatness.”
“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.”
“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.”
“The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and unstringing my instrument.”
Famous Quotes Of Rabindranath Tagore :
“The world is the ever-changing foam that floats on the surface of a sea of silence.”
“In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We face death with the same rhythm with which we face life.”
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“In our daily life, we see that it is not happiness but rather hope that keeps us going.”
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
“The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”
“Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.”
“To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.”
“Let my thoughts come to you when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
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