Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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178 Timeless Quotes on Happiness, Faith, and Life's Beautiful Aspects

“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.”

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

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

“Music fills the infinite between two souls”

“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.”

“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

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

“WE live in this world when we love it.”

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

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

“YOU 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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”

“The song 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…”

“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.”

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

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

“Inspiration follows aspiration.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my
house—do not pass by like a dream.”

“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”

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

“Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”

“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.”

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

“Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?”

“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.”

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

“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.”

“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody 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.”