Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

We live in the world when we love it.

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.

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

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

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

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

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.

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

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

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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

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

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

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

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

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

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

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

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

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

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

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

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

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

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

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

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.

Those who own much have much to fear.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

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.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

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

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

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

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

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

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

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

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

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love