Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

 

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

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

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

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

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

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

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

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

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

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

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

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

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

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are
Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words
Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you
Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart.

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.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

 

while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

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