Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Life

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

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

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.

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

We live in the world when we love it.

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

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

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.

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

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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

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

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.