Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

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.

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

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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.

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

We live in the world when we love it.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree

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

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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