Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.”

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

“Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.”

“The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song”

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

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

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

“From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.”

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

“Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.”

“Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!”

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

“Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty”

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

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

“It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.”

“And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”

“For man is by nature an artist.”

“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”

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