Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

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.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

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.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!

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

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

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