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From Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
- 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 us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if…
- Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
- 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…
- I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and…
- Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
- Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
- Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my…
- When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can…
- From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and…
- Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from…
- Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?
- The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
- 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…
- Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
- Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.
- Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him…
- Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at…
- There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.
- In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
- Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.
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