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“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Inspiration follows aspiration.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

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

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

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

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“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.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“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 (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath