Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

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

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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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We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

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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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Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

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It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

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

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Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

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Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

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Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

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

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

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Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!

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

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At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

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Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.

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

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

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