Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (55) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Rabindranath Thakurα, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. 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. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and otherworldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India.
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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."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."
— 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 (Stray Birds)
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Collected Poems And Plays Of Rabindranath Tagore)
"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."
— 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
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"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
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"We live in the world when we love it."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Men are cruel, but Man is kind. "
— 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
"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"Music fills the infinite between two souls"
— Rabindranath Tagore
"YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Fireflies)
"Age considers; youth ventures."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.
Where words come out from the depth of truth,
where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection.
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit.
Where the mind is led forward by thee
into ever widening thought and action.
In to that heaven of freedom, my father,
LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!"
— Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
"Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the laying of it down"
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. "
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room.
The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
— Rabindranath Tagore
"We cross infinity with every step;
we meet eternity in every second."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Lover's Gift)
"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition"
— Rabindranath Tagore
"when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. "
— Rabindranath Tagore
"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)
"Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Inspiration follows aspiration."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all.
Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee.
Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love."
— Rabindranath Tagore
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