Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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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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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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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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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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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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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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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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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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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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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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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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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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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.