Time Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

“Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

— Rabindranath Tagore

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I have felt that you have been able to assimilate these secrets into your life, and the truth which lies in the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“There is a Persian story which I was greatly taken with when I read it as a boy ⎯ I think I…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“THE TAME BIRD WAS IN A CAGE THE tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest. They…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Hard Times Music is silenced, the dark descending slowly Has stripped unending skies of all companions. Weariness grips your limbs and within…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever.…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“When Death comes and whispers to me, “Your days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and…

— Rabindranath Tagore