Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- 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

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

- Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- 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

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

- 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

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

- Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

- 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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

- 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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

- 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

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

- Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

- 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

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

- 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

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

- 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

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

- Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

- Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

- Rabindranath Tagore