Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou...

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of deli...

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland...

I have felt that you have been able to assimilate these secrets into your life, and the truth which ...

We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that ref...

When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he ...

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till th...

Unending LoveI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...In life after life, in...

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

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in...

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

I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetr...

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...

His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity wa...

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

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

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around ...

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy.When grace is lost from l...

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one am...

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

Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect compreh...

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

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are...

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we ...

The time has come when I must divest Bimala of all the ideal decorations with which I decked her. It...

We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak.""Women...

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the ...

I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your ...

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particul...

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life wer...

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humbl...

If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where th...

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unr...

Age considers youth ventures.

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

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Where the old tracks are lost new country is revealed with its wonders.

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but ...

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

He only may chastise who loves.

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

Men are cruel but man is kind.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the d...

God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

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

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

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

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the youn...

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

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks,...

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmon...

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

God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing.

I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtat...

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great de...

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. I...

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and...

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

We live in the world when we love it.

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

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

Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a...

Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkne...

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

The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord an...

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a...

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

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the wate...

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

Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexa...

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

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

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for t...

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, ...

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

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

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