Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Rabindranath Tagore - Page 3

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

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.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

God finds himself by creating.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

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 fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.