Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

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

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

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

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

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

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

We live in the world when we love it.

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

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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Age considers; youth ventures.

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

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

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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

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

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.

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.

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

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

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.