Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

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

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

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.

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

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

All that is not given is lost.

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

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.

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

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

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

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

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

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

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

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

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

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

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

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

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

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

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

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

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

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

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

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

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

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