Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.”

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

“Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.”

“Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.”

“A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”

“The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.”

“A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”

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

“By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.”

“Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.”

“Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”

“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”

“Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

“Inspiration follows aspiration.”

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

“My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”

“Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.”

“Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

“The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.”

“The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.”

“The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.”

“Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.”

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

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”