Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

Inspirational, Life, Rain

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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Create, Capacity, Receive

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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore

Fearless, Pray, Sheltered

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Joy, Service

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Through, Dark, Become

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

Education, Time, Learning

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship, Depend, Depth

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Death, Light, Dawn

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith, Dark, Light

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Mind, Makes, Hand

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Morning, Time, Child

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

Life, Education, Give

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Truth, Heart

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

God, Child, Message

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Time, Enough

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.
Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, Great, Silence

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Truth, Smile

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Freedom, Claim

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age, Youth, Ventures

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

Sea, Water, Standing

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Good, Busy

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Time, Dance

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Flower, Her

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

God, Children, Play

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Poet

Born: May 6, 1861

Died: August 7, 1941

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