Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
• Music fills the infinite between two souls.
• 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.
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
• Those who own much have much to fear.
• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
• We live in the world when we love it.
• What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
• 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.
• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
• 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.
• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
• Age considers; youth ventures.
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
• Facts are many, but the truth is one.
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
• If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
• 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.
• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
• Faith is the pillar that holds up the palace of creation.
• Where the mind is without fear, there lies the road to creativity.
• You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
• The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough
• You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water.