Top 100 Quotes About Tagore
#1. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Zhu Xiao-Mei
#2. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I cam to sing remains unsung.
Rabindranath Tagore
Christina Carson
#3. You need not comfort me by lightening my load I ask for strength to carry my burden -tagore
Anish Majumdar
#4. 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
Jonathan Paul Isaacs
#5. 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
Shashi Tharoor
#6. Tagore's direct narrative prose is clear water. At times the light changes over it, a shadow passes, and when night falls the water too takes on night's opacity.
Sharmistha Mohanty
#7. My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#8. 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?
Dan Millman
#9. My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful.
Ritwik Ghatak
#12. Remember this quote: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy." ~R. Tagore
John Franklin Graham
#13. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#14. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#15. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#16. What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
#18. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.
Debasish Mridha
#19. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#20. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#21. While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.
Rabindranath Tagore
#22. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.
Debasish Mridha
#25. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
#26. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
Rabindranath Tagore
#27. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#28. The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
Rabindranath Tagore
#29. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#30. The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth
Rabindranath Tagore
#31. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
#32. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.
Rabindranath Tagore
#34. The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.
Debasish Mridha
#35. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#37. The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
#38. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#39. Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#42. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#43. There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.
Debasish Mridha
#44. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#45. Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.
Rabindranath Tagore
#46. The singer alone does not make a song,
there has to be someone who hears.
-Broken Song
Rabindranath Tagore
#47. Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.
Debasish Mridha
#48. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#49. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#50. The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
Rabindranath Tagore
#51. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#52. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#54. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#55. Don't look for a reason to be kind. Be a little more loving and kind.
Debasish Mridha
#56. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#57. Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.
Debasish Mridha
#59. If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.
Debasish Mridha
#61. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#63. There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.
Debasish Mridha
#66. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#68. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#69. 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 -
Rabindranath Tagore
#70. Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?
Rabindranath Tagore
#71. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
#72. Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
Rabindranath Tagore
#73. 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.
Tagore Rabindranath
#74. My battle weapons in life are very simple; my weapons are love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#75. A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#76. In the morning, smile like the morning sun and give the best gift of a smile filled with the warmth of love.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.
Rabindranath Tagore
#78. Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.
Rabindranath Tagore
#82. We are so busy with our everyday lives that we often forget how to live.
Debasish Mridha
#83. It is never too early and never too late to try your best. What you like or what you love will be a great success.
Debasish Mridha
#84. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#85. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#86. Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".
Rabindranath Tagore
#87. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#88. When you are ready, every door will open automatically for you.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
#90. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#91. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#92. Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.
Rabindranath Tagore
#93. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#94. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#95. Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
#96. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
#97. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt ... but do read ...
Rabindranath Tagore
#98. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Rabindranath Tagore
#99. Our thoughts and imaginations are much more powerful than our feelings or actions.
Debasish Mridha
#100. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
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