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Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom. — Rabindranath Tagore

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. — Rabindranath Tagore

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. — Rabindranath Tagore

They throw their shadows before them who carry their lantern on their back. — Rabindranath Tagore

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. — 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

Tell him Sudha has not forgotten him. — Rabindranath Tagore

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word. — Rabindranath Tagore

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. — Rabindranath Tagore

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him. — Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. — Rabindranath Tagore

A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is. — Rabindranath Tagore

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess. — Rabindranath Tagore

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many. — Rabindranath Tagore

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man — Rabindranath Tagore

When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you. — Rabindranath Tagore

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. — Rabindranath Tagore

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. — Rabindranath Tagore

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs. — Rabindranath Tagore

Men are cruel, but Man is kind. — Rabindranath Tagore

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open. — Rabindranath Tagore

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child. — Rabindranath Tagore

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite. — Rabindranath Tagore

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone. — Rabindranath Tagore

The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt. — Rabindranath Tagore

When you have finished with others, that is my time. — Rabindranath Tagore

They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent. — Rabindranath Tagore

I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted. — Rabindranath Tagore

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. — Rabindranath Tagore

Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history. — Rabindranath Tagore

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us. — Rabindranath Tagore

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself. — Rabindranath Tagore

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". — Rabindranath Tagore

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore

Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night. — Rabindranath Tagore

He alone may chastise who loves. — Rabindranath Tagore

The movement of life has to rest in its own music. — Rabindranath Tagore

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. — Rabindranath Tagore

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth — Rabindranath Tagore

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. — Rabindranath Tagore

He had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings. — Rabindranath Tagore

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror. — Rabindranath Tagore

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. — Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You. — Rabindranath Tagore

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man. — Rabindranath Tagore

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. — Rabindranath Tagore

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. — Rabindranath Tagore

If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity. — Rabindranath Tagore

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. — Rabindranath Tagore

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music. — Rabindranath Tagore

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product. — Rabindranath Tagore

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. — Rabindranath Tagore

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow. — Rabindranath Tagore

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. — Rabindranath Tagore

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. — Rabindranath Tagore

Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free. — Rabindranath Tagore

For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself. — Rabindranath Tagore

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root. — Rabindranath Tagore

I'll be the cloud and you the moon.
I'll cover you with both hands,
And our roof will be the sky. — Rabindranath Tagore

truth and falsehood mingle in life - and to what God builds, man adds his own decoration. — Rabindranath Tagore

If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul. — Rabindranath Tagore

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed. — Rabindranath Tagore

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. — Rabindranath Tagore

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself. — Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

The light of our home also was to depart to her husband's house, and leave her father's in the shadow. — Rabindranath Tagore

In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun.
"I leave my answers in tears upon the grass. — Rabindranath Tagore

The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly. — Rabindranath Tagore

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil. — Rabindranath Tagore

In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline. — Rabindranath Tagore

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.
While we are on fire let us seethe and boil. — Rabindranath Tagore

The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel. — Rabindranath Tagore

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing. — Rabindranath Tagore

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. — Rabindranath Tagore

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." — Rabindranath Tagore

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. — Rabindranath Tagore

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man — Rabindranath Tagore

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty — 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

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest. — Rabindranath Tagore

Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was - . But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father. — Rabindranath Tagore

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky. — Rabindranath Tagore

Dreams can never be made captive. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative. — Rabindranath Tagore

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. — Rabindranath Tagore

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies. — Rabindranath Tagore

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination. — Rabindranath Tagore

Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies. — Rabindranath Tagore

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. — Rabindranath Tagore

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world. — Rabindranath Tagore

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. — Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one. — Rabindranath Tagore