Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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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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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
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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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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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The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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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.
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
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A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.