Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

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

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.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.