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In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m


Rabindranath Tagore

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwe...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Man's cry is to reach his fullest expression.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Never be afraid of the moments - thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE God finds himself by creating.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it d...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
RABINDRANATH TAGORE when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for y...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Wh...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside th...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one am...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that imm...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak."
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We live in this world when we love it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in it...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for real...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither giv...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.
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