Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Dreams can never be made captive.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Those who own much have much to fear.

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.