Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

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

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

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.

Music fills the infinite between two souls

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

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

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.