Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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.
4713 Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
4152 You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
2156 Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
3587 Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
2356 Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
4610 The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
4657 Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
3982 when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
3152 Age considers; youth ventures.
1570 The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
2433 TRUTH in her dress finds facts too tight.
In fiction she moves with ease.
1780 Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
4438 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.
1070 Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
3787 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.
2129 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.
4888 Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
1486 The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.
4374 The stone will melt in tears,
because I can’t remain closed to you forever.
I can’t escape without being conquered.
From the blue sky an eye will gaze down,
to summon me in silence.
I will receive death utterly at your feet.
1752 If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a champa.
2629 The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings - and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.
4227 But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.
4593 Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
1901 It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.
2736 At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.
2451 Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.
1688 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.
2848 He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
1395 I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.
But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
4690 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;...
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
3590 The song being great in its own wealth, why should it wait upon the words? Rather does it begin where mere words fail. Its power lies in the region of the inexpressible; it tells us what the words cannot.
1716 I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
3100 The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
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