Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher, and artist who reshaped Indian literature and music. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poetry, “Gitanjali,” making him the first non-European to receive the honor. Tagore’s literary works, spanning poetry, songs (Rabindrasangeet), essays, short stories, and plays, explored themes of love, nature, spirituality, and humanism. He played a pivotal role in the Bengal Renaissance, advocating for social reforms, education, and cultural revival. Tagore’s contributions extended beyond literature; he was a prominent figure in Indian nationalist movements and promoted international understanding and cooperation. His legacy as a towering figure in Indian culture endures, influencing generations of writers, artists, and thinkers globally.
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
1. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
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2. “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
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3. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
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4. “The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
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5. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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6. “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.”
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7. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
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8. “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.”
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9. “We live in the world when we love it.”
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10. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
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11. “The greed for fruit misses the flower.”
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12. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
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13. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
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14. “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
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15. “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
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16. “The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”
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17. “The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
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18. “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
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19. “Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
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20. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
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21. “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
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22. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
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23. “Music fills the infinite between two souls.”
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24. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
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25. “”Yo 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.”
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26. “To find God, you must welcome everything.”
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27. “If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”
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28. “Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
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29. “Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
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30. “A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”
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31. “I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”
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32. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
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33. “I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”
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34. “Inspiration follows aspiration.”
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35. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
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36. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
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37. “Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.”
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38. “All that is not given is lost.”
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39. “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.”
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40. “What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”
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41. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
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42. “What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”
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43. “There is no “next” after you are dead and gone from your own world.”
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44. “When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.”
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45. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
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46. “Merely to exist is not enough.”
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47. “The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”
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48. “Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
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49. “The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”
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50. “Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
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51. “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.”
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52. “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.”
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53. “And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”
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54. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
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55. “The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.”
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56. “Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”
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57. “Repentance is a gift of God’s grace.”
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58. “The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.”
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59. “You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.”
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60. “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.”
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61. “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.”
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62. “The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.”
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63. “Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.”
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64. “The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”
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65. “The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.”
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66. “In death the many become one; in life the one become many.”
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67. “He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”
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68. “O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”
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69. “Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
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70. “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
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71. “Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”
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72. “Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.”
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73. “Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”
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74. “I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.”
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75. “Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.”
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76. “The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”
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77. “If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.”
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78. “Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”
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79. “God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.”
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80. “Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”
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81. “Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.”
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82. “O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.”
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83. “Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.”
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84. “Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.”
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85. “My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”
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86. “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.”
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87. “My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”
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88. “Death’s stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.”
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89. “The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”
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90. “Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.”
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91. “Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
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92. “Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
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93. “I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”
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94. “This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.”
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95. “When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
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96. “Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.”
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97. “Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones – the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”
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98. “Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”
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99. “We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.”
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100. “The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.”
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101. “This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.”
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102. “While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”
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103. “Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.”
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104. “The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.”
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105. “The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.”
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106. “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.”
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107. “The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.”
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108. “Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.”
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109. “Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.”
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110. “Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
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111. “Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.”
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112. “Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.”
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113. “And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.”
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114. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
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115. “Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”
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116. “That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”
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117. “Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
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118. “The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: “I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.””
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119. “Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.”
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120. “If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”
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121. “Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”
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122. “Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?”
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123. “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.”
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124. “The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”
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125. “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.”
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126. “Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.”
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127. “In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”
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128. “Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”
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129. “The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”
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130. “Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.”
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131. “Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.”
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132. “Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart.”
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133. “The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”
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134. “Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.”
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135. “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.”
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136. “The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”
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137. “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
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138. “Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.”
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139. “Man’s freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.”
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140. “To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
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141. “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.”
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142. “For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.”
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143. “The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.”
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144. “Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.”
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145. “The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man’s dharma, man’s religion, and man’s self is the vessel.”
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146. “Truth reveals itself in beauty.”
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147. “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
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148. “Set the bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.”
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149. “We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.”
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150. “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.”
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151. “Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.”
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152. “My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.”
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153. “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.”
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154. “My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
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155. “Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.”
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156. “Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.”
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157. “Power said to the world, “You are mine.” The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, “I am thine.” The world gave it the freedom of her house.”
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158. “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
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159. “Our creation is the modification of relationship.”
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160. “For man is by nature an artist.”
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161. “Love gives beauty to everything it touches.”
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162. “Age considers; youth ventures.”
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163. “Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.”
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164. “Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.”
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165. “Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.”
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166. “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.”
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167. “If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.”
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168. “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.”
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169. “Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.”
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170. “Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.”
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171. “When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.”
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172. “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.”
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173. “Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
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174. “The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.”
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175. “I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.”
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176. “Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.”
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177. “I ask my destiny – what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, “Look round!” I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.”
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178. “Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
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179. “The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.”
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180. “Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself.”
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181. “If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.”
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182. “I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.”
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183. “The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.”
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184. “Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.”
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185. “And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.”
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186. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
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187. “Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.”
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188. “Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.”
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189. “The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.”
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190. “The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”
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191. “The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.”
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192. “That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?”
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193. “In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.”
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194. “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.”
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195. “Life’s aspirations come in the guise of children.”
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196. “The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song.”
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197. “Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?”
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198. “And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation.”
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199. “The movement of life has to rest in its own music.”
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200. “It means that God’s Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.”
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201. “Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.”
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202. “The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one’s daily life simply and naturally.”
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203. “Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”
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204. “Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.”
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205. “No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”
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206. “Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”
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207. “Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”
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208. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
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209. “Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”
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210. “I’m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth’s last love. I will take life’s final offering, I will take the last human blessing.”
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211. “God finds himself by creating.”
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212. “The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.”
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213. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
214. “Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.”
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215. “The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
216. “Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.”
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217. “When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
218. “The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
219. “He alone may chastise who loves.”
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220. “Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
221. “Those who own much have much to fear.”
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222. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
223. “It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.”
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224. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
225. “On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
226. “Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.”
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227. “Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.”
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228. “In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day’s caravan.”
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229. “CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74.”
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230. “The question and the cry ‘Oh, where?’ melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance ‘I am!’”
— Rabindranath Tagore
231. “For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached – yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
232. “At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
233. “Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
234. “The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
235. “Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
236. “Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
237. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
238. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
239. “We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
240. “The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
241. “Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
242. “A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
243. “By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.”
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244. “Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
245. “The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
246. “With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.”
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247. “The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country’s cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.”
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248. “CANNOT choose the best. The best chooses me.”
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249. “SORROW is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.”
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250. “These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
251. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
252. “From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
253. “Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
254. “The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
255. “Never be afraid of the moments – thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
256. “Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.”
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257. “God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.”
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258. “It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
259. “The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
260. “The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
261. “Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
262. “Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
263. “The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
264. “The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
265. “The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
266. “We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
267. “Dreams can never be made captive.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
268. “If my heart is breaking – let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt – nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
269. “The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
270. “If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
271. “This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
272. “The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
273. “Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
274. “Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
275. “Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.”
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276. “I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
277. “Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.”
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278. “I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
279. “A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
280. “A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
281. “I have lost my dewdrop”, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.”
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282. “As a flower plucked from a tree gradually droops and shrivels, love that avoids the harsh realities of practical life cannot thrive on its own resources.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
283. “Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
284. “My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
285. “I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
286. “Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
287. “The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
288. “We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
289. “Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
290. “He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
291. “Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
292. “Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
293. “The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
294. “Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
295. “It’s far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
296. “By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
297. “What seems to be coming at you is really coming from you.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
298. “Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
299. “Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
300. “True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
301. “When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
302. “I believe in a spiritual world – not as anything separate from this world – but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.”
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303. “He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
304. “The Stronger is the imagination the less imaginary it is.”
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305. “Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.”
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306. “I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things.”
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307. “I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.”
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308. “THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.”
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309. “It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.”
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310. “To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
311. “I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.”
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312. “Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
313. “God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.”
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314. “From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.
— Rabindranath Tagore
315. “To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
316. “Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
317. “The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.”
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318. “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.”
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319. “When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.”
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320. “The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.”
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321. “April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.”
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322. “58 One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf. I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes. I kissed her and said, “You are blind even as the flowers are. You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
323. “The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
324. “Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
325. “If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me, even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk. From the traveller, whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended, whose garment is torn and dustladen, whose strength is exhausted, remove shame and poverty, and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
326. “Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
327. “The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
328. “Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
329. “And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
330. “Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
331. “Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!”
— Rabindranath Tagore
332. “Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.”
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333. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
334. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
335. “When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
336. “Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
337. “Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!”
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338. “The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart. The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
339. “The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
340. “All the intimate associations of our life, all its experience of pleasure and pain, group themselves around this display of the divine love, and from the drama that we witness in him. The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees and the stars and the blue hills appear to us as symbols aching with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
341. “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.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
342. “Sin is the blurring of truth which clouds the purity of our consciousness. In sin we lust after pleasures, not because they are truly desirable, but because the red light of our passions makes them appear desirable; we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
343. “Essentially man is not a slave either of himself or of the world; but he is a lover. His freedom and fulfilment is in love, which is another name for perfect comprehension.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
344. “Thy desire at once puts out the light from the lamp it touches with its breath. It is unholy – take not thy gifts through its unclean hands. Accept only what is offered by sacred love.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
345. “Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
346. “Mother, the tutor has come, and I have such a bad headache; couldn’t I have no lessons to-day?” I hope no child of immature age will be allowed to read this story, and I sincerely trust it will not be used in text-books or primers for junior classes. For what I did was dreadfully bad, and I received no punishment whatever. On the contrary, my wickedness was crowned with success.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
347. “The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, “Why does it exist at all?” Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
348. “YOUR speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
349. “If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?”
— Rabindranath Tagore
350. “I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
351. “The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.”
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352. “Only the weak dare not be just.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
353. “The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding. For where we do not understand, we can never be just. Being.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
354. “At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.”
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355. “When material is in profusion, the mind gets lazy and leaves everything to it, forgetting that for a successful feast of joy its internal equipment counts for more than the external. This is the chief lesson which his infant state has to teach to man. There his possessions are few and trivial, yet he needs no more for his happiness. The world of play is spoilt for the unfortunate youngster who is burdened with an unlimited quantity of playthings.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
356. “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. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind; for its contact is more than a physical contact – it is a living presence.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
357. “We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: “There was a king.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
358. “Why did the lamp go out? I shaded it with my cloak to save it from the wind, that is why the lamp went out. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded. Why did the stream dry up? I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up. Why did the harp-string break? I tried to force a note that was beyond its power, that is why the harp-string is broken.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
359. “When a material body breaks it may be put together again. But when two human beings are divided, after a long separation, they never re-unite at the same place, and to the same time; for the mind is a living thing, and moment by moment it grows and changes.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
360. “Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike – the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests – were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love –.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
361. “As in intellectual error, so in evil of any other form, its essence is impermanence, for it cannot accord with the whole. Every moment it is being corrected by the totality of things and keeps changing its aspect.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
362. “Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked – this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind – saving me from perils of overmuch desire.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
363. “I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
364. “Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
365. “King, they work, because they must. We work, because we are in love with life. That is why they condemn us as unpractical, and we condemn them as lifeless.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
366. “Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
367. “I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind. I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
368. “The attitude of the God-conscious man of the Upanishad towards the universe is one of a deep feeling of adoration. His object of worship is present everywhere. It is the one living truth that makes all realities true. This truth is not only of knowledge but of devotion.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
369. “Raicharan was twelve years old when he came as a servant to his master’s house. He belonged to the same caste as his master and was given his master’s little son to nurse. As time went on the boy left Raicharan’s arms to go to school. From school he went on to college, and after college he entered the judicial service. Always, until he married, Raicharan was his sole attendant.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
370. “It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
371. “I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
372. “THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
373. “While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.”
— Rabinbdranath Tagore
374. “I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
375. “These were autumn mornings, the very time of year when kings of old went forth to conquest; and I, never stirring from my little corner in Calcutta, would let my mind wander over the whole world.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
376. “Amongst men of the Cabuliwallah’s class, however, it is well known that the words father-in-law’s house have a double meaning. It is a euphemism for jail, the place where we are well cared for, at no expense to ourselves. In this sense would the sturdy pedlar take my daughter’s question. ‘Oh,’ he would say, shaking his fist at an invisible policeman, ‘I will thrash my father-in-law!”
— Rabindranath Tagore
377. “Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
378. “I came out alone on my way to my tryst. But who is this that follows me in the silent dark? I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not. He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
379. “Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action – Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. This.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
380. “When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
381. “The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
382. “Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
383. “Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
384. “The child, who is decked with prince’s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust he keeps himself from the world, and is afraid even to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
385. “The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said, “Here art thou!” The question and the cry, “Oh, where?” melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance, “I am!” XIII.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
386. “One clings desperately to some vain hope, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and then it breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
387. “Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
388. “In this world’s endless time and boundless space One may be born at last to match my sovereign grace.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
389. “Misery knocks at thy door, and her message is that thy lord is wakeful, and he calls thee to the love-tryst through the darkness of night. The sky is overcast with clouds and the rain is ceaseless. I know not what this is that stirs in me, – I know not its meaning. A moment’s flash of lightning drags down a deeper gloom on my sight, and my heart gropes for the path to where the music of the night calls me. Light, oh, where is the light?”
— Rabindranath Tagore
390. “If the cow alone is to be held sacred from slaughter, and not the buffalo, then that is bigotry, not religion.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
391. “The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and the efforts of the Congress over a period of time have together begun to make us realize that we belong to one country and are one people; that whether in joy or in sorrow our destiny is one; and that we cannot prosper unless we discover the ties which make us one, and seek to strengthen them.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
392. “Where one loves, one can follow without agreeing – one can surrender oneself with eyes open.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
393. “The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
394. “Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
395. “In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
396. “The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
397. “Vanity is not like a horse or an elephant requiring expensive fodder.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
398. “The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
399. “Yet it is at this very age when, in his heart of hearts, a young lad most craves for recognition and love; and he becomes the devoted slave of any one who shows him consideration. But none dare openly love him, for that would be regarded as undue indulgence and therefore bad for the boy. So, what with scolding and chiding, he becomes very much like a stray dog that has lost his master.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
400. “Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!”
— Rabindranath Tagore
401. “In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
402. “Now nearly every small Bengali maiden had heard long ago about her father-in-law’s house; but we were a little new-fangled, and had kept these things from our child, so that Mini at this question must have been a trifle bewildered. But she would not show it, and with ready tact replied: ‘Are you going there?”
— Rabindranath Tagore
403. “Their real freedom is not within the boundaries of security, but in the highroad of adventures, full of the risk of new experiences.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
404. “The light of thy music illumines the world. The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky. The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on. My.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
405. “God never under any conditions binds His creation with fetters; He awakens it through constant changes to ever new life.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
406. “The highest mission of education is to help us to realise the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and all the activities of our social and spiritual being.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
407. “Man’s poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux – a phantasm that is and is not.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
408. “The sands of desert may be very white and shiny, but I would much rather sow my seeds in black soil.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
409. “Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
410. “They who from birth have had no other speech than the trembling of their lips learn a language of the eyes, endless in expression, deep as the sea, clear as the heavens, wherein play dawn and sunset, light and shadow. The dumb have a lonely grandeur like Nature’s own. Wherefore.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
411. “Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
412. “Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
413. “Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
414. “Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
415. “Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
416. “They come from my imagination; for, as you know, truth is silent, and it is imagination only which waxes eloquent. Reality represses the flow of feeling like a rock; imagination cuts out a path for itself.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
417. “I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
418. “Oh! what lies we women have to tell! When we are mothers, we tell lies to pacify our children; and when we are wives, we tell lies to pacify the fathers of our children. We are never free from this necessity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
419. “MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
420. “Man is not to fight with other human races, other human individuals, but his work is to bring about reconciliation and Peace and to restore the bonds of friendship and love. We are not like fighting beasts. It is the life of self which is predominating in our life, the self which is creating the seclusion, giving rise to sufferings, to jealousy and hatred, to political and commercial competition. All these illusions will vanish, if we go down to the heart of.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
421. “We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander – this is untrue when stated in dry prose – oh when shall we be able to sing it? When shall all these most intimate truths of the universe overflow the pages of printed books and leap out in a sacred stream like the Ganges from the Gangotrie?”
— Rabindranath Tagore
422. “In pleasure and in pain I stand not by the side of men, and thus stand by thee. I shrink to give up my life, and thus do not plunge into the great waters of life.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
423. “This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new… Thy infinite gifts come to me only on those very small hand of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
424. “For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
425. “Be not ashamed, my brothers, to stand before the proud and the powerful With your white robe of simpleness. Let your crown be of humility, your freedom the freedom of the soul. Build God’s throne daily upon the ample bareness of your poverty And know that what is huge is not great and pride is not everlasting.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
426. “Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when we see them smilingly, trustfully, putting their hands within reach of its fangs, then we understand how terribly dangerous the snake is.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
427. “It was chilly weather. Through the window the rays of the sun touched my feet, and the slight warmth was very welcome. It was almost eight o’clock, and the early pedestrians were returning home with their heads covered.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
428. “At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
429. “To be constantly changing one’s plans isn’t decision at all-it’s indecision.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
430. “I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that the real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
431. “Turn a tree into a log and it will burn for you, but it will never bear living flowers and fruit.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
432. “Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
433. “He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being. XXX.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
434. “Even though from childhood I had been taught that idolatry of the Nation is almost better than reverence for God and humanity, I believe I have outgrown that teaching, and it is my conviction that my countrymen will truly gain their India by fighting against the education which teaches them that a country is greater than the ideals of humanity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
435. “The lad himself becomes painfully self-conscious. When he talks with elderly people he is either unduly forward, or else so unduly shy that he appears ashamed of his very existence.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
436. “The cramped atmosphere of neglect oppressed Phatik so much that he felt that he could hardly breathe.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
437. “It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
438. “From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
439. “India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
440. “When Death comes and whispers to me, “Your days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and not in mere time.” He will ask, “Will your songs remain?” I shall say, “I know not, but this I know, that often when I sang I found my eternity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
441. “Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
442. “The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
443. “A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw… I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
444. “His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
445. “Outwardly nature is busy and restless, inwardly she is all silence and peace. She has toil on one side and leisure on the other. You see her bondage only when you see her from without, but within her heart is a limitless beauty.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
446. “I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
447. “The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
448. “Death, you are no different to me than my lover with cloud-coloured skin, and your hair a mass of dark cloud, your hands like blood-red lotus, and your lips the colour of blood.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
449. “Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: “I painted the night”.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
450. “God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
451. “In the depth of night when no one is awake to arrest me – me, the least of all men – I will silently creep to my mother’s arms and fall asleep, and may I never wake again!”
— Rabindranath Tagore
452. “Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
453. “We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
454. “We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of our desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it as the road which leads us to our destination; and as such it is part of our goal.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
455. “When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
456. “It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
457. “For the worthy there are many rewards on God’s earth, but God has specially reserved love for the unworthy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
458. “The earth, water and light, fruits and flowers, to her were not merely physical phenomena to be turned to use and then left aside. They were necessary to her in the attainment of her ideal of perfection, as every note is necessary to the completeness of the symphony.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
459. “When at even-tide the child of want lies down, dirty and hungry, in his squalid home, and hears of prince and princess and fabled gold, then in the dark hovel lighted by its dim flickering candle, his mind springs free from its bonds of poverty and misery and walks in fresh beauty and glowing raiment, strong beyond all fear of hindrance, through that fairy realm where all is possible.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
460. “I longed to find Bimala blossoming fully in all her truth and power. But the thing I forgot to calculate was, that one must give up all claims based on conventional rights, if one would find a person freely revealed in truth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
461. “Man’s history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
462. “Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
463. “When we express our thought in words, the medium is not found easily. There must be a process of translation, which is often inexact, and then we fall into error. But.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
464. “It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
465. “Many an hour I have spent in the strife of the good and the evil, but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him;.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
466. “Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
467. “Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
468. “Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was –. But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
469. “When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get head-aches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
470. “Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
471. “Only the trees and beasts and birds tell unmitigated truths, because these poor things have not the power to invent. In this men show their superiority to the lower creatures, and women beat even men. Neither is a profusion of ornament unbecoming for a woman, nor a profusion of untruth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
472. “I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
473. “Your lips are bitter-sweet with the taste of my wine of pain.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
474. “When you have finished with others, that is my time.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
475. “Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
476. “In love we find a joy which is ultimate because it is the ultimate truth.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
477. “We have seen that in order to be powerful we have to submit to the laws of the universal forces, and to realise in practice that they are our own. So, in order to be happy, we have to submit our individual will to the sovereignty of the universal will, and to feel in truth that it is our own will. When we reach that state wherein the adjustment of the finite in us to the infinite is made perfect, then pain itself becomes a valuable asset.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
478. “Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
479. “To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
480. “Those who slander others,′ Sachish said, ’do so because they love slander, not because they love truth. It’s pointless therefore to struggle to prove that a piece of slander is untrue.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
481. “The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
482. “The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature’s energy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
483. “All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit – the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
484. “The fact is, those who are like everyone else arouse no hatred unless there is a reason. But when a resplendent inner self pierces the grossness that envelops it, some, quite irrationally, extend it heartfelt adoration; others, just as irrationally, try heart and soul to insult it.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
485. “All my work and all my dealings with people feel very easy. Actually, everything is simple. There is one straight road – if you open your eyes you can go along it. I don’t see the need to search for all sorts of clever short cuts. Happiness and sadness are both on the road – there is no road that avoids them – but peace is found only on this road, nowhere else.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
486. “Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
487. “EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, “Let us do something,” then begins mischief. 172.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
488. “Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song – the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter, the joy that sits still with its tears on the open red lotus of pain, and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
489. “Naturally, it gave rise to a round of tears like an autumn shower that soon evaporates in the sunshine of love, leaving behind only a glow of moisture. When.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
490. “The lamps in one street after another were lighted till it seemed to him that a pervading darkness, like some demon, was keeping its eyes wide open to watch every movement of its victim.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
491. “Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature’s energy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
492. “The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master’s home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
493. “It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
494. “Haralal explained why the money came to his house at night, like birds to their nest, to be scattered next morning.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
495. “Brahmos accept a formless deity who is invisible to the eye. You accept idols who cannot be heard. We acccept the living who can be seen and heard – it’s impossible not to believe in them.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
496. “Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin… Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
497. “In appearance Sachish gives the impression of a celestial being. His eyes glow; his long, slender fingers are like tongues of flame; the colour of his skin is more a luminescence than a colour. As soon as I set eyes on him I seemed to glimpse his inner self; and from that moment I loved him.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
498. “In fact, man has been able to make his pursuit of power easier to-day by his art of mitigating the obstructive forces that came from the higher region of his humanity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
499. “But the child’s faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
500. “At the very name of another country, my heart would go out to it, and at the sight of a foreigner in the streets, I would fall to weaving a network of dreams, – the mountains, the glens, and the forests of his distant home, with his cottage in its setting, and the free and independent life of far-away wilds.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
