Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

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

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

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

5.Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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

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

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

9.Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

10.We live in the world when we love it.

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

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

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

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

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

16.We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

17.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.

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

19.When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

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

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

22.Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.

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

24.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.

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

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

27.The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

28.The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

29.Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

30.The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

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