Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

252. “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

253. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

254. “Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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257. “I believe in a spiritual world – not as anything separate from this world – but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

258. “The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

260. “A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.”

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261. “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

262. “I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

264. “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

265. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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270. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

272. “God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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274. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

279. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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284. “Dreams can never be made captive.”

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

287. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

288. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

289. “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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290. “God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.”

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291. “The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

292. “When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.”

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293. “Their real freedom is not within the boundaries of security, but in the highroad of adventures, full of the risk of new experiences.”

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294. “Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”

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295. “I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

296. “The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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299. “When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.”

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

— Rabindranath Tagore