Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

102. “While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

103. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

104. “The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

105. “The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

106. “The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

107. “Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

108. “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

111. “Facts are many, but the truth is one.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

113. “That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

114. “Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

115. “And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

116. “Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

119. “Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

121. “Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

122. “The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: “I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.””

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

125. “The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

126. “If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

127. “Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

128. “Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?”

— Rabindranath Tagore

129. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

130. “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

131. “The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

132. “When I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

133. “In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

134. “The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

135. “Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

136. “The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

137. “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

138. “Truth reveals itself in beauty.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

139. “Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

140. “We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

141. “The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

142. “Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

143. “To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

144. “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

145. “For man is by nature an artist.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

146. “Love gives beauty to everything it touches.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

148. “For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore