Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“We live in the world when we love it.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

“To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.”

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

“It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.”

“The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.”

“I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things”

“Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.”

“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 force of arms only reveals man s weakness.”

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

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

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

“The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.”

“I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.”

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

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

“The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

“Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.”

“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.”

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

“He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.”

“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”