Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Life, Giving)

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Love, Freedom, Possession)

"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Love, Truth, Law)

"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Music, Infinite)

"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Day)

"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Burden, Self)

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Time, Moments, Months)

"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Envy)

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Education, Life, Existence, Harmony, Information)

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Life, Time, Dance, Dew)

"Those who own much have much to fear."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Fear)

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Love, Mystery, Nothing)

"Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Earth, Effort, Heaven, Listening, Trees)

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Earth, Effort, Heaven, Listening, Trees)

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Humility)

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Freedom, Gain)

"We live in the world when we love it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Love, World)

"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Art, Soul, Man)

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Sea, Water)

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: God)

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."
- 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
(Related: Truth, Sea, Silence, Water, Words)

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Truth, Bigotry)

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Difficulty, Will)

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: God, Man)

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Freedom)

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Time, Learning)

"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
(Related: Time, First, Name, Yesterday)

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Friendship, Acquaintance)

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Death, Dawn, Light)

"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
(Related: Love, Truth, Heart, Creation, Lies, Reality, Sentiment)

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Beauty)

"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Smile)

"Age considers; youth ventures."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Age, Youth)

"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
(Related: Life, Joy, Service)

"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Truth, Facts)

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Faith, Dawn, Light)

"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Art, Man)

"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
(Related: God, Temple, Children, Play)

"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Wisdom, Tongue)

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Time)

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Truth, Errors, Will)

"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
(Related: Present, Will)

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Life, Clouds, Rain, Sky, Sunset)

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Logic, Mind)