Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024

‘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

‘You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.’ – 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

‘Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.’ – 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

‘What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.’ – 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

‘We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Facts are many, but the truth is one.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Age considers; youth ventures.’ – 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

‘Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Music fills the infinite between two souls.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘We live in the world when we love it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.’ – 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

‘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

‘By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.’ – 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

‘Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Those who own much have much to fear.’ – Rabindranath Tagore