“Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.”
Source: Poems
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Famous Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)
“When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.”
Source: Miscellaneous writings
“In death the many become one; in life the one become many.”
Source: The Concept of Man in Rabindranath Tagore and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
“Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.”
Source: Poems
“Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.”
Source: Poems
“Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.”
Source: Sadhana
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.”
Source: Poems
“Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.”
Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Source: Poems
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
Source: Poems
Source: Essays
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
Source: Stray Birds
Source: Poems
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
Source: Poems
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Source: Poems
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
Source: Poems
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
Source: Tagore
“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
Source: Stray Birds
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
Source: Poems
“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”
Source: Poems
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Source: Poems
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
Source: Poems
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
Source: Poems
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
Source: Poems
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany