Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

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

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

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

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

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.