Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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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.

Rabindranath Tagore
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

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We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

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Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield, But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved, But for the patience to win my freedom.

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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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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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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

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

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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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Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

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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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Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

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Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

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YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

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My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it's for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won't ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

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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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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.

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According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there

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

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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.

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The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore