Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore
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.

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And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To find in the left one
Its consolation.

Rabindranath Tagore
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Rabindranath Tagore
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

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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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Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

Rabindranath Tagore
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Rabindranath Tagore
At my dying hour, and over my long life,
A clock strikes somewhere at the city's edge.

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The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

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Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

Rabindranath Tagore
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Rabindranath Tagore
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

Rabindranath Tagore
That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

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

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore