Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.

In Art man reveals himself and not his objects.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Age considers, youth ventures.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

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

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The water in a vessel is sparkling, the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear, the great truth has great silence.

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

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

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

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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

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

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs as in the young.

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

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

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

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

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

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth which is law.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.