Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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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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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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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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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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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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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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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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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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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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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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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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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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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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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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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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This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
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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.