Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
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In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
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I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
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Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
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Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
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In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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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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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.