Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
The faith waiting in the heart of a seed
promises a miracle of life
which it cannot prove at once.
My heart today smiles at its past night of tears
like a wet tree glistening in the sun
after the rain is over.
For thou dwellest in me and I in thee. Thou without me or I without thee are nothing.
Rabindranath Tagore
For thou dwellest in me and I in thee. Thou without me or I without thee are nothing.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Each rose that comes brings me greetings from the rose of an eternal spring.
The tree gazes in love at its own beautiful shadow which yet it never can grasp.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
The stars crowd round the virgin night
in silent awe at her loneliness
thay can never be touched.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
In the region of nature, which is the region of diversity, we grow by acquisition; in the spiritual world, which is the region of unity, we grow by losing ourselves, by uniting.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.
Jewel-Like the immortal
does not boast of its length of years
but of the scintillating point of the moment.
God honours me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
With a grip that kills it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
