Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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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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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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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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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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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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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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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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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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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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.
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
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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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Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.