Last updated: July 15th, 2020
βYou can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don’t let yourself indulge in vain wishes.β
βClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.β
βIf you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.β
βWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes on love
βIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.β
βGray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.β
βNirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because the day comes.β
βTrees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes on nature
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
βAge considers; youth ventures.”
βFaith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
βThe one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes on life
βThe one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.β
βThe highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.β
βEvery child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.β
βFaith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.β
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes about education
βClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.β
βThe newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.β
βYou canβt cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.β
βI slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes on nationalism
βIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.β
βFaith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.β
βLove’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.β
βThe highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes about death
βAsks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?”
βIn the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.β
βIn love, all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finsβ
βTruth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes about music
βThe potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be evil.β
βMan’s cry is to reach his fullest expression.β
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.β
βI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes about teacher
βReach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal.β
βThe small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.β
βDon’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.β
βDeath is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.β
Rabindranath Tagore quotes about art
βBy plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.β
βReach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal.β
βThe truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.β
βI slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.β
rabindranath tagore quotes on success
βA lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.β
βFaith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.β
βI am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.β
βI am able to love my God because He gives me the freedom to deny Him.β