Rabindranath Tagore quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Famous Quotes & Sayings

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At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad.

I have lost my dewdrop, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

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

Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the laying of it down

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

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

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

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

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

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

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief. 172

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

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

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

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

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

God seeks comrades and claims love,
The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

Music fills the infinite between two souls

In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.

I didn't write the history of my flight in the sky,,
still I flew for sheer joy.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

Those who own much have much to fear.

To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

He sent up his song towards the star-land out of his reach, where, circled with light, the planet who ruled his destiny shone unknown and out of ken.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions ... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

The sands of desert may be very white and shiny, but I would much rather sow my seeds in black soil.

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

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

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

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

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.