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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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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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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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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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'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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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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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?
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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.
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.