Quotes by "Rabindranath Tagore"

At the start of Creation There was a dark without origin, At the breaking of Creation There is fire without end...

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

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.

যারা কাছে আছে তারা কাছে থাক, তারা তো পারে না জানিতে তাহাদের চেয়ে তুমি কাছে আছ আমার হৃদয়খানিতে।

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.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite; it is the true center of gravity of our life. This we can attain during our childhood by daily living in a place where the truth of the spiritual world is not obscured by a crowd of necessities assuming artificial importance; where life is simple, surrounded by fullness of leisure, by ample space and pure air and profound peace of nature; and where men live with a perfect faith in the eternal life before them.

His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.

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.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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

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

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.