Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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• He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
• He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain…
• You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
• No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
• Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
• The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know…
• In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and…
• Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the…
• Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
• He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes…
• The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.
• Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if…
• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws,…
• Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over…
• While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
• Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
• 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…
• The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
• Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

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