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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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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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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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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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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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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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
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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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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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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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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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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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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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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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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
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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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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.
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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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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.
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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 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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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.