Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Rabindranath Tagore - Page 2

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

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.

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.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

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 crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

All that is not given is lost.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

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

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.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

Dreams can never be made captive.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

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.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement.

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

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.

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.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

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.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.