Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We live in the world when we love it.

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

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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Age considers; youth ventures.

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.