Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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Asks the Possible to the Impossible, 'Where is your dwelling place?' 'In the dreams of the impotent,' comes the answer.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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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.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.
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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.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
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We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.