Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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

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.

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

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

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

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

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

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

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.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.