Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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Rabindranath Tagore

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 7, 1861

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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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.

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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