Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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 he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

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

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

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