Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

We live in the world when we love it.

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. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

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.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.