Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

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.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.