Top 100 Quotes About Rabindranath Tagore
#1. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)
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#2. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung.
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#3. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." - Rabindranath Tagore
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#4. Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: 'A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.' Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, 'It would be a good idea'. 'The
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#5. As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
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#6. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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#7. Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.
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#8. Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.
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#9. What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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#10. I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
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#11. The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master's home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.
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#12. While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.
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#14. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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#15. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
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#16. The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
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#17. The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
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#18. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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#19. Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.
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#20. They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.
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#22. The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
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#23. The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
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#24. Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
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#27. I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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#28. If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled- a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.
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#29. Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.
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#30. The singer alone does not make a song,
there has to be someone who hears.
-Broken Song
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#31. Outwardly nature is busy and restless, inwardly she is all silence and peace. She has toil on one side and leisure on the other. You see her bondage only when you see her from without, but within her heart is a limitless beauty.
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#32. 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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#33. The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
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#35. Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success.
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#36. When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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#38. Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.
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#42. Man cannot reach the shrine if he does not make the pilgrimage.
Languages are jealous. They do not give up their best treasures to those who try to deal with them through an intermediary belonging to an alien rival.
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#44. This longing for the perfect expression of his self is more deeply inherent in man than his hunger and thirst for bodily sustenance, his lust for wealth and distinction.
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#45. Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike - the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests - were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love -
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#46. Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?
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#47. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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#48. Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
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#49. Death, you are no different to me than my lover with cloud-coloured skin, and your hair a mass of dark cloud, your hands like blood-red lotus, and your lips the colour of blood.
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#50. Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.
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#52. Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.
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#53. Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.
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#54. Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.
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#55. Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".
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#56. I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.
But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
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#57. Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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#58. True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.
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#59. Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
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#60. Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.
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#61. human society is a web of mistakes; nobody has the sense to do the right thing at the right time, and when the chance is gone we break our hearts over vain longings.
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#62. Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
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#63. Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was - . But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father.
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#64. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt ... but do read ...
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#65. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
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#66. We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
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#67. The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.
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#68. Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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#70. Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my
house - do not pass by like a dream.
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#71. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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#74. I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.
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#75. For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached - yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.
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#76. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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#77. Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
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#80. The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
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#81. This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.
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#82. The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.
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#83. Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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#84. Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
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#85. Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati.
In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root.
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#86. Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
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#87. If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.
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#88. Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.
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#89. Many an hour I have spent in the strife of the good and the evil, but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him;
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#90. The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.
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#91. In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.
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#92. The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
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#93. The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
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#95. I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart.
In the sunny haze of the languid hours, what vast vision of thine takes shape in the blue of the sky!
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#96. At last, when no one else came, Mother Sleep soothed with her soft caresses the wounded heart of the motherless lad.
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#97. He who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students.
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#98. happiness is like those stars. They don't cover all the darkness; there are gaps between. We make mistakes in life and we misunderstand, and yet there remain gaps through which truth shines.
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#99. They throw their shadows before them who carry their lantern on their back.
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#100. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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