Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74.”

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252. “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!’”

— Rabindranath Tagore

253. “To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.”

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

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

257. “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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258. “Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage.”

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

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260. “It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

261. “The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”

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262. “Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.”

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263. “The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.”

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

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265. “The Stronger is the imagination the less imaginary it is.”

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266. “Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

267. “The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.”

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268. “Dreams can never be made captive.”

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269. “By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.”

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270. “God never under any conditions binds His creation with fetters; He awakens it through constant changes to ever new life.”

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271. “Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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273. “Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.”

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

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275. “The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature’s energy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

276. “The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country’s cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.”

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277. “These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

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

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279. “From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”

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280. “I have lost my dewdrop”, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.”

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281. “Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.”

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282. “The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.”

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283. “Never be afraid of the moments – thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”

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284. “As a flower plucked from a tree gradually droops and shrivels, love that avoids the harsh realities of practical life cannot thrive on its own resources.”

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285. “Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.”

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286. “Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.”

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287. “I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.”

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288. “He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.”

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289. “Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.”

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290. “Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

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291. “We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.”

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292. “The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.”

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293. “He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

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294. “The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.”

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295. “When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.”

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296. “The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.”

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297. “The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.”

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298. “If my heart is breaking – let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt – nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.”

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299. “If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.”

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300. “From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.”

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