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Rabindranath Tagore
May 07, 1861 - Aug 07, 1941
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth - century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he di...
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
We live in the world when we love it.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for thefirst time as a newborn child that has no name.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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