Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

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

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

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

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

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

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

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

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

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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

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

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

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

I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

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.

All that is not given is lost.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

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

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

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

Inspiration follows aspiration.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

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

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

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

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

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

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.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

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

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

God finds himself by creating.

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

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

We live in the world when we love it.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.