Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Those who own much have much to fear.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
We live in the world when we love it.
