Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
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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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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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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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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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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 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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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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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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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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Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
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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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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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Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
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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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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.
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Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.
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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 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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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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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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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.