Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Inspirational
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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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.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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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.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.
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Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
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Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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The movement of life has its rest in its own music.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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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.
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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.
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A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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