Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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

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

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.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Those who own much have much to fear.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

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

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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.

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

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.

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

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.