Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.
I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.
Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
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.
Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.
Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.
It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.
