Rabindranath
Tagore Quotes
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart
of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not pray to be sheltered from
dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- 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 awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- 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
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
The burden of the self is lightened
when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits
to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
The false can never grow into truth by
growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
The flower which is single need not
envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on
length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes to us that belongs to
us if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
To be outspoken is easy when you do not
wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is given to us, we earn it by
giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are Earth's endless effort to
speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own
learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the
candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truth's smile when she
beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
The fact that I exist is a perpetual
surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- 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
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A mind all logic is like a knife all
blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who is too busy doing good finds no
time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation from the bondage of the
soil is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
We try to realize the essential unity
of the world
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.
- Rabindranath Tagore
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music fills the infinite between two
souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- 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 union.
- Rabindranath Tagore
in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realization of union.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere impulse, it must
contain truth, which is law.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals, you do not
gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- 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
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but
moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not
in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its
hand with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the
edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart
of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the ultimate meaning of
everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great when we
are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming
defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore


