Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

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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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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?

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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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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

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The one without second is emptiness,
the other one makes it true.

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Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

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

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Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

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

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The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

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To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

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One of the many suppressed longings of creation which cry after fulfilment is for neglected joys within reach; while we are busy pursuing chimerical impossibilities we famish our lives... The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers.

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

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