Rabindranath Tagore Inspirational Quotations

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

We live in the world when we love it.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

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

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

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.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

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.

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Age considers; youth ventures.

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.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.