Rabindranath Tagore famous quotes

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

#Life #Inspiring #Encouragement

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

#Motivational #Adventure #Positivity

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Change

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

#Inspirational #Death #Rest In Peace

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

#Love #Sweet #Waiting

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Pain #Men #Joy

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

#Beautiful #Summer #Rest In Peace

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Flower #Love Is #Soul

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

#Death #Mother #Night

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Music #Stars #Blue

Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Winning #Men #East

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

#Maturity #Joy #Fruit

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

#Positive #Encouraging #Dark

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Death #Lamps #Dawn

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

#Inspirational #Commitment #Insperational

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

#Inspirational Life #Sea #Water

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

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

#Time #Memories #Butterfly

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

#Waiting #Silence #Speak

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

#Life #Giving #Generosity

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Eye #Age #Ears

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

#Being Single #Flower #Envy

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Encouragement #Joy #Elements

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Encouragement #Pain #Heart

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

#Life #Healing #Scar

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Stars #Light #Darkness

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

#Beauty #Mirrors #Flattery

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

#Children #Educational #Learning

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Being Alone #Solitude #Depth

Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Kings #Real #Technology

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Flower #Way #Blooming

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

#Life #Encouragement #Self Esteem

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

#Simple #Difficult

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Running #Nature #Flower

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

#Rainy Day #Giving #Sunlight

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Effort #Selfless #Comfort

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Love #Wisdom #Doors

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

#Love #World #Given

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.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Inspirational #Life #Believe

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Heart #Numbers #Giving

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Success #Yoga #Self

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Love #Sad #Being Alone

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Pain #Heart #Grieving

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Children #School #Discipline

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

#Good Morning #Children #Hypocrite

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Journey #Goal #Answers

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

#Mistake #Errors #Cry

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Discipline #Stupidity #Disguise

Inspiration follows aspiration.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Inspiration #Aspiration

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
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Heart #Unspoken Words #Crowds

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

#Patience #Persistence #Water

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

#Happiness #Smile #Beauty

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.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Spiritual #Glasses #Long

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

#Life #Motivational #Dance

We live in the world when we love it.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Love #Live In The Moment #Earth

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

#Love #Love Is #Law

Age considers; youth ventures.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Age #Venture #Youth

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Taken #Apology #Water

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Mother #Running #Night

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

#Humble #Humility #Great Teacher

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

#Truth #Dark #Sea

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

#Encouraging #Faith #Dark

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Freedom #Gains

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 #Life #Lying

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Friendship #Depth #Doe

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Song #Kings #Heart

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Inspirational #Life #Education

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

#God #Hope #Children

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

#God #Running #Children

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

#Kindness #Men #Kind

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

#Beauty #Flower #Carpe Diem

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Music #Wisdom #Two

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

#Inspirational #Hands #Knives

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

#Want #Vivekananda #India

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Karma #Nice #Heart

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#God #Essence #Joy

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Beauty #Eye #Reality

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Art #Drunk #Joy

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Dedication #Leisure #Faces

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Real #Shining

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Knowing #Giving #Action

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

#World #Wealth #Claims

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Love #Unity #Conflict

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Sacrifice #Men #Self

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

#Wake Up #Stranger #Dear

Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Adventure #Self #Expression

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Simple #Feet #Flutes

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.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Ideas #Perfect #Joy

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

#Differences #Wipe #Problem

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

#Truth #Growing #Grows

True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#God #Real #Ignorance

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Shame #Praise

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

#Success #Accomplishment #Enemy

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Giving

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Sad #Wings #Air

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Life #Doors #Forever

Those who own much have much to fear.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Greed

To find God, you must welcome everything.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Welcome

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

#Being Alone #Water #Doing Nothing

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Ocean #Blessed #Sight