Rabindranath Tagore: This great man was highly influential in introducing the best part of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of fresh modern India.
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Great Quotes of Ravindernath Tagore
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* Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. Rabindranath Tagore * God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. Rabindranath Tagore H * He alone may chastise who loves. Rabindranath Tagore * He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. Rabindranath Tagore I * In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Rabindranath Tagore * Inspiration follows aspiration. 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 * I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore |
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* It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple
Rabindranath Tagore * I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. 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 |
* If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
* If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore
* I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
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* Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will helpto remove the darkness.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain 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
M
* Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore
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* Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore
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* Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
Rabindranath Tagore
* Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Rabindranath Tagore
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* Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal
Rabindranath Tagore
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* 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.”
Rabindranath Tagore
T
* Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
* To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The greed for fruit misses the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The great wisdom is like the water in the sea, dark, mysterious, impenetrable
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 singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
Rabindranath Tagore
* " To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country"
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
* Those who own much have much to fear.
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* We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
* We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
* What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
* We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
* We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Rabindranath Tagore
* When you came ( born) you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
Rabindranath Tagore
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* You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore
* You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
Rabindranath Tagore:
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Rabindranath Tagore
* If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore
* I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
Rabindranath Tagore
L
* Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will helpto remove the darkness.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain 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
M
* Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore
N
* Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore
O
* Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
Rabindranath Tagore
* Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Rabindranath Tagore
R
* Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal
Rabindranath Tagore
S
* 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.”
Rabindranath Tagore
T
* Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
* To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The greed for fruit misses the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The great wisdom is like the water in the sea, dark, mysterious, impenetrable
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 singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure.
Rabindranath Tagore
* The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
Rabindranath Tagore
* " To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country"
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
* Those who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath Tagore
W
* We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
* We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
* What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
* We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
* We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Rabindranath Tagore
* When you came ( born) you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
Rabindranath Tagore
Y
* You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
* Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore
* You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
Rabindranath Tagore:
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