Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

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

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Those who own much have much to fear.

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

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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.

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

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