Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.”

“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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”

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

“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.”

“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

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

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

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

“Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.”

“I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.”

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

“We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.”

“When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.”

“The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.”

“It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.”

“On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.”

“Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.”

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

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”

“Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.”