Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

1. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

2. “You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

3. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

4. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

5. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

6. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

7. “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

8. “Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”

9. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

10. “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

11. “Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

12. “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

13. “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”

14. “What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”

15. “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

16. “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

17. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

18. “Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”

19. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

20. “Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

21. “Age considers; youth ventures.”

22. “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.”

23. “Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”

24. “Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

25. “Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

26. “We live in the world when we love it.”

27. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

28. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

29. “The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

30. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

31. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

32. “The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”

33. “Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

34. “Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”

35. “If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”

36. “He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

37. “Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

38. “From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”

39. “Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

40. “Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

41. “Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

42. “Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

43. “To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”

44. “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

45. “Those who own much have much to fear.”

46. “We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

47. “Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”