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“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

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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

Heart , Country

“One of the many suppressed longings of creation which cry after fulfilment is for neglected joys within reach; while we are busy pursuing chimerical impossibilities we famish our lives…The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

Life , Feeling , Business , Past

“Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

Love , Beauty , Soul , Personality

“Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation
into a harmony with the whole.”

Rabindranath Tagore

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Fireflies (1928)

Life , Beauty , Error , Cry

“To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”

Rabindranath Tagore

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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

God , Speed

“God finds himself by creating.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

God

“The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

Love , World

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

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

Truth , Waiting

“In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.”

Rabindranath Tagore

"Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 475). Also cited in John Jesudason Cornelius, Rabindranath Tagore: India's Schoolmaster, (1928, p. 83).

Love , Life , Justice , Heart

“Asks the Possible to the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling place?" "In the dreams of the impotent," comes the answer.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

Dreams

“It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!”

Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

Life , Flowers , Sun , Wealth

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

Love , Dead

“Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?”

Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

God , Perfection , Happiness

“In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Interview with Einstein (1930)

Law , Freedom , Singing , Personality

“Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

Change , Time , Wealth

“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

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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

Love , Strong

“Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?”

Rabindranath Tagore

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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

Housing

“There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions. That’s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Original works of Rabindranath Vol. 24 page 375, Vishwa Bharti; 1982.

Peace , Religion , Way