Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

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

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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