Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

At my dying hour, and over my long life,A clock strikes somewhere at the city's edge.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

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.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

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

The smile that flickers on a baby's lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

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

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it's for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won't ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.