Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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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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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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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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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
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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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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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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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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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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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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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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.
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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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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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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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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.
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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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When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.