Top 25 Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore of 435 - Page 4

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

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

Busy, Doing Good, Be Good

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.32, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

Rabindranath Tagore

Sacrifice, Men, Self

Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.65, 1st World Publishing

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

Rabindranath Tagore

Peace, Heart, Hands

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Devil, Slave

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.440, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

Rabindranath Tagore

Flower, Love Is, Soul

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Perception, World

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Flower, Mean, Smell

Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Rabindranath Tagore

Fire, Flames, Soul

Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.19, Rabindranath Tagore

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rivers, Tears, Taj Mahal

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

Rabindranath Tagore

Children, School, Discipline

Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA

Dreams can never be made captive.

Rabindranath Tagore

Dream, Made, Captives

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.85, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Trying, Mixtures

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom, Hands, Feelings

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

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Rabindranath Tagore

Past

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

Rabindranath Tagore

Running, Horse, Animal

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love Is, Causes, Mystery

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Life, Self

Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Treasure, Limits, Possession

Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.12, Rabindranath Tagore

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

Rabindranath Tagore

Men, Thinking, Understanding

Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

"Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

Rabindranath Tagore

Being Alone, Solitude, Depth

Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.242, Sahitya Akademi

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Life, Art

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Rabindranath Tagore

Spiritual, Glasses, Long

Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

Rabindranath Tagore

Past, Rivers, House