Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.”

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202. “Life’s aspirations come in the guise of children.”

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203. “The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song.”

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204. “And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation.”

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205. “Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?”

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206. “Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.”

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207. “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.”

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208. “Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.”

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209. “The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one’s daily life simply and naturally.”

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210. “In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day’s caravan.”

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211. “For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached – yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.”

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212. “Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”

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213. “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.”

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214. “Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”

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215. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

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216. “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.”

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217. “Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

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218. “The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.”

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219. “The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.”

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220. “The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.”

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221. “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.”

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222. “The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.”

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

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224. “What seems to be coming at you is really coming from you.”

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225. “Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.”

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226. “The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons.”

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227. “The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.”

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228. “Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”

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229. “Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.”

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230. “Those who own much have much to fear.”

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231. “He alone may chastise who loves.”

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232. “This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.”

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233. “Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.”

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234. “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.”

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235. “It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.”

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236. “Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!”

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237. “Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind.”

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238. “On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.”

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239. “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.”

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240. “Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.”

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241. “CANNOT choose the best. The best chooses me.”

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242. “Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.”

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243. “SORROW is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.”

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244. “CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74.”

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245. “The question and the cry ‘Oh, where?’ melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance ‘I am!’”

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246. “At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.”

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247. “Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.”

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

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249. “The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

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250. “Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.”

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