Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

302. “Children are living beings – more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”

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303. “Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”

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304. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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307. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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323. “Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; 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. This.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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335. “The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and the efforts of the Congress over a period of time have together begun to make us realize that we belong to one country and are one people; that whether in joy or in sorrow our destiny is one; and that we cannot prosper unless we discover the ties which make us one, and seek to strengthen them.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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339. “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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340. “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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341. “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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342. “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.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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345. “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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346. “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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347. “Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.”

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

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349. “The highest mission of education is to help us to realise the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and all the activities of our social and spiritual being.”

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350. “The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside.”

— Rabindranath Tagore