Rabindranath Tagore

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

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.

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

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

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

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

False hope is clung to with all ones might and main till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

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

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances / it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions / like a peacock’s tail / It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly / it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

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

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

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.

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

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

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

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

The small truth has words that are clear the great truth has great silence.

Beauty is truths smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

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

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

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

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon from the East where the sun rises and then unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest despite all barriers to win back his lost heritage.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

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.

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

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

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

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

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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

The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.

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.

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

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

We are hidden in ourselves like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all then our truth is revealed.

Dark clouds become heavens flowers when kissed by light.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

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

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

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

Fidelity in love requires abstinence but only through it one can know the hidden beauty of love.

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

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

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

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

Those who own much have much to fear.

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

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

Dont limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

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.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Men are cruel but Man is kind.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

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

Faith is the bird that feels the light And sings when the dawn is still dark.

We live in the world when we love it.

To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

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.

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

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

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms numberless times in life after life in age after age forever.

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

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

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

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Facts are many but the truth is one.