Famous Rabindranath Tagore Quotations

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"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Death is not extinguishing the light
It is simply putting out the lamp
Because the dawn has come"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
by 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."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
by 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."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. The i"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"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"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Men are cruel, but Man is kind."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach truth, not through feeling it by senses or knowing it by reason, but thr"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself."
by 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."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist."
by 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."
by 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."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"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"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for reality is not based in the substance of things but in the principle of relationship. Truth is the infinite pursued by metaphysics; fact is the infinite p"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price..."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"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."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
by Rabindranath Tagore
"The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand"
by Rabindranath Tagore
"The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination."
by Rabindranath Tagore


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