Rabindranath Tagore ✓

(1861–1941) Nobel Prize winner British Raj

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[Wikidata] Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)... | [Wikipedia] Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European

Best Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

• Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble… Element
• Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. Accept
• Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts… Artificial
• I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and… Ask
• Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom. Freedom
• I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. Air
• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and… All
• Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. Custom
• Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. Bees
• 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… Answer
• A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. Another Lamp
• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. Autumn
• Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him. Ask
• 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… Alight
• I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child. Child
• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where… All
• Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. Brimming
• We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,… Admits
• Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The… Art
• I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering,… Birthday
• Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its… Adventure
• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness… Advance
• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing… All
• Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… Abroad
• That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life. Exist

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