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Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore
Moon, Perfection, Doubt
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.460, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Rabindranath Tagore
Encouragement, Pain, Heart
Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

Rabindranath Tagore
Dark, Light, Bird

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.

Rabindranath Tagore
Running, Thinking, World

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

Rabindranath Tagore
Attitude, Self, Expression
Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Rabindranath Tagore
Children, Newborn Child, Newborn

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Rabindranath Tagore
Stars, Moving, Tree

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!

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Flower
Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Jealous, Borders, Language

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

Rabindranath Tagore
Taken, Responsibility

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

Rabindranath Tagore
Taken, Apology, Water
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore
Winning, Allies, Looks
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

Rabindranath Tagore
Spiritual, Giving, Religion

Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

Rabindranath Tagore
Spring, Winter, Exercise
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

Rabindranath Tagore
Work, Discipline, Desire

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Roots, Enemy
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Lectures, addresses”, p.986, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Rabindranath Tagore
Music, Beautiful, Simple
Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991”

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Kissing, World
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.397, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Laughter, Light

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Soul, Proud
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.47, Sahitya Akademi

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Rabindranath Tagore
Bravery, Certain, Mere
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.106, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.

Rabindranath Tagore
Children, Heart, Trying
Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Rabindranath Tagore
Mistake, Errors, Funeral
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.588, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Morning, Past, East

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

Rabindranath Tagore
Journey, Goal, Finding Yourself
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.52, Sahitya Akademi

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