Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

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

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

God respects me when I work, but loves me when I sing.

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

He only may chastise who loves.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

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

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.