Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “When a material body breaks it may be put together again. But when two human beings are divided, after a long separation, they never re-unite at the same place, and to the same time; for the mind is a living thing, and moment by moment it grows and changes.”

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302. “Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.”

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303. “A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.”

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304. “The attitude of the God-conscious man of the Upanishad towards the universe is one of a deep feeling of adoration. His object of worship is present everywhere. It is the one living truth that makes all realities true. This truth is not only of knowledge but of devotion.”

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305. “A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”

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

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307. “Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”

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308. “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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309. “Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.”

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310. “My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.”

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

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

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313. “Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.”

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

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315. “It’s far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.”

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316. “Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.”

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317. “The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

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318. “By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.”

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

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320. “I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things.”

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321. “THE mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.”

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322. “It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.”

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323. “True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.”

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324. “Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.”

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

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326. “I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.”

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

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329. “I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.”

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330. “Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.”

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331. “The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.”

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

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333. “To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”

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334. “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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335. “Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

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336. “If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me, even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk. From the traveller, whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended, whose garment is torn and dustladen, whose strength is exhausted, remove shame and poverty, and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night.”

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337. “Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.”

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338. “Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.”

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339. “The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.”

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340. “April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.”

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341. “And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.”

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342. “58 One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf. I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes. I kissed her and said, “You are blind even as the flowers are. You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift.”

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343. “Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

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

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345. “Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.”

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346. “Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!”

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347. “Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.”

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348. “The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”

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349. “The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart. The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.”

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350. “Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.”

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