Rabindranath Tagore

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

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

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

“যারা কাছে আছে তারা কাছে থাক, তারা তো পারে না জানিতে তাহাদের চেয়ে তুমি কাছে আছ আমার হৃদয়খানিতে।”

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

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

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

“Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”

“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

“From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

“Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

“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.”

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“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.”

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

“What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”

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

“Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, foreve...”

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

“At the start of Creation There was a dark without origin, At the breaking of Creation There is fire without end...”

“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

“God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.”

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

“The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”

“With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.”

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, And has time enough.”

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

“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”

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

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

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.”

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

“I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies...”

“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.”

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

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

“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite; it is the true center of gravity of our life. This...”

“His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.”

“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”

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

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”