Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by prosperous people who now control the world. We still believe that the world has a deeper meaning than what is apparent, and that therein the human s

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vitality.

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.