Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

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

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

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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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The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

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

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Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

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It seems to me that, perhaps, creation is not fettered by rules, That all the hubbub, meeting and mingling are blind happenings of fate.

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I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

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The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

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The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

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This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

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The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

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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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Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

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You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

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We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

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To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

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That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

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

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

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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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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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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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