Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself.

Rabindranath Tagore
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

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With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

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

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Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

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The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

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Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

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Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

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Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

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The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

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The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

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Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

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The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

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Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

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Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

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Through millions and millions of years, The stars shine, Fiery whirlpools revolve and rise In the dark ever-moving current of time. In this current The earth is a bubble of mud.

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

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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.

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It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

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Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

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

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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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Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

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Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

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Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

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Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

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When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

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Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

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