Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

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

Those who own much have much to fear.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.