Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is co...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first t...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We live in the world when we love it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE পৃথিবীতে যারা মুখ ফুটে নালিশ করতে পার�...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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 an...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ser...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Le...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE All that is not given is lost.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in v...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and beh...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love
RABINDRANATH TAGORE You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all mo...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can ne...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the uni...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it i...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his s...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the cease...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finit...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the youn...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmon...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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 To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the h...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my su...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is co...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for t...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, a...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Music fills the infinite between two souls.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the d...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the en...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and f...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, igno...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains u...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something te...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from beh...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE إن أبلغ درس يتعلمه الإنسان من الحياة هو أنه ليس هناك أل�...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE إنني أتشوّف إلى أن أردد لك أعمق الكلمات التي
ينبغي أ�...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE الفن يماثل الحب في كونه غير قابل للتفسير
RABINDRANATH TAGORE إن الحب المكتوم لحبٌ مقدسٌ ، إنه يتلألأ كجوهرة ،
في غ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE أنا لا اظفر بالراحة .

أنا ظامئ إلى الأشياء البعيد�...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74
RABINDRANATH TAGORE WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 58
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Do not blame your food because you have no appetite.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and fli...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the lig...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the layi...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Lo...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry si...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity wa...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In l...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Age considers; youth ventures.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them....
RABINDRANATH TAGORE India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy riv...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, n...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of d...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE "Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which ar...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us....
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vita...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the his...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because o...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourse...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent,...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes a...
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."
...
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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