Rabindranath Tagore Quotes - Page 16

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• Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love Is, Giving, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

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• In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Lakes, Mountain, Depth

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• [The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Air, Voice, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.741, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Soul, Trying

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.415, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

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  Life, Dream, Greatness

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.163, Penguin UK

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• Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

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  Running, Horse, Animal

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• 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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Emptiness, Poor, Said

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.412, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• April, like a child,
  Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers,
  Wipes them away and forgets.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Children, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

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  God, Real, Ignorance

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• The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Doors, World, Shrines

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.14, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unity, Wonder, Significance

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.696, Sahitya Akademi

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• We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
  We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Hope, Hands, Void

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.68, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

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  Illumination, Race, People

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.515, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

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  Mother, Running, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.

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  Waterfalls, Hills, Far Away

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Fireflies”

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• Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

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  Jewels, Moments, Length

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Fireflies”

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• I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stress, Philosophy, Real

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• 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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Heart, Waiting

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.21, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

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  Children, Aspiration, Guise

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

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• Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

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  Flower, College, Garden

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• 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.

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  Men, Light, Other Worlds

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.429, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Education, Flower, Museums

  Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.

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  Heart, Night, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

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  Passion, Self, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.30, BookRix

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• Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Forever, Taj Mahal, Rubies

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