Rabindranath Tagore quotes

“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I have become my own version of an optimist. 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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“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

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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