Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

We live in the world when we love it.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

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

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

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

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

The butterfly counts not months but moments And has time enough.

Do not say, 'It is morning, ' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

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

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

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.