R Tagore Quotes

#1. 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

#2. God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#6. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.

Debasish Mridha

#9. 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

#10. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

Debasish Mridha

#11. The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. 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

#13. Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

Rabindranath Tagore

#15. The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Rabindranath Tagore

#16. 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

#17. Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones
the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

#19. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.

Debasish Mridha

#20. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore

#21. 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

#22. Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

Debasish Mridha

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

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.

Debasish Mridha

#25. While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.

Rabindranath Tagore

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I have no other religion than kindness.

Debasish Mridha

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

Rabindranath Tagore

#31. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.

Debasish Mridha

#32. 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