Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict

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

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how c

In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin