Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

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• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

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

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

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• Those who own much have much to fear.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• And Joy is Everywhere;

  It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
  In the blue serenity of the Sky;
  In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
  In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;

  In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
  In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
  In Living;
  In the exercise of all our powers;
  In the acquisition of Knowledge;
  In fighting evils …

  Joy is there Everywhere.

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• 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. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

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

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• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

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

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

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• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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• There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

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• 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

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• 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

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

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Rabindranath Tagore (67)

Birth:	7th May, 1861
Death:	7th August, 1941
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Poet

About

Rabindranath Tagor was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other-worldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India.

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