Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.
There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv
The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come
Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit
If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. The i
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
