“PETRIOTISM CANNOT BE OUR FINAL SPIRITUAL SHELTER; MY REFUGE IS HUMANITY. I WILL NOT BUY GLASS FOR THE PRICE OF DIMONDS, AND I WILL NEVER ALLOW PATRIOTISM TO TRIUMPH OVER HUMANITY AS LONG AS I LIVE.”- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Rabindranath Tagore also written
Ravīndranātha Thākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) , was a Bengali
polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian
art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
verse” he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1913. Sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”,
Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however,
his “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside
Bengal.(from Wikipedia)
QUOTES OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” – 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
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“I
seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life
after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“We live in the world when we love it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price…” – 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
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry
rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath
Tagore
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.” – 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
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – 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
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” – 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
“Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Those who own much have much to fear” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“When
I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know
that I had my wounds and also my healing.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.” – 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
“Age considers; youth ventures.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“ Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“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
“ Discipline divorced from wisdom
is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom,
which is only a disguise for stupidity.”-Rabindranath Tagore
“ Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“The
greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death,
it is when I am just before you, and you don’t know that I Love You.”-
Rabindranath Tagore
“ Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately
reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that
the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”- 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
“Set the bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ Love gives beauty to everything it touches.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”-Rabindranath Tagore
“The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“Only
in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose
the right perspective. It’s important to know that our biggest resources
are in our heart.”- 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
“ I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the
clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to
perform the ordinary duties of one’s daily life simply and naturally.”-
Rabindranath Tagore
“ To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“Those
who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where
do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot,
now at this very moment.”-
Rabindranath Tagore
“ Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free …..”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“ Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”- 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
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”-
Rabindranath Tagore
“The
most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there
is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it
into joy.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“The one who plants trees,
knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to
understand the meaning of life.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.”- 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
“
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
“The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.”- Rabindranath Tagore
“
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is
humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will
never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.”-
Rabindranath Tagore
