Rabindranath Tagore Quotes - Page 10

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• Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

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  Running, Thinking, World

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• To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

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  Decision, Indecision, Plans

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “The Wreck”

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• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

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  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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• The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

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  Stars, Moving, Tree

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• We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

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  Children, Newborn Child, Newborn

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• The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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  Power, Men, Weakness

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.74, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

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  Music, Color, Soul

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Fireflies”

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• Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

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  Dark, Light, Bird

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• Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

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  World, Wealth, Claims

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

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  Jealous, Borders, Language

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• Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

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  Attitude, Self, Expression

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

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  Taken, Apology, Water

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

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  Taken, Responsibility

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• Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

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  Winning, Allies, Looks

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

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  Spiritual, Giving, Religion

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

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  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

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  Work, Discipline, Desire

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• If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

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  Journey, Goal, Finding Yourself

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.52, Sahitya Akademi

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• The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

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  Men, Soul, Proud

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.47, Sahitya Akademi

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• The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

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  Song, Kissing, World

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.397, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.

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  Children, Heart, Trying

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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• The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.

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  Morning, Past, East

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• By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

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  Men, Roots, Enemy

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Lectures, addresses”, p.986, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

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  Pain, Heart, Grieving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

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  Mistake, Errors, Funeral

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.588, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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