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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.

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.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Essence, Joy
Rabindranath Tagore, Sahitya Akademi (1996). “The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore”

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Rabindranath Tagore
Beautiful, Summer, Rest In Peace
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.15, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Rabindranath Tagore
Wake Up, Stranger, Dear
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.4, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

Rabindranath Tagore
Spiritual, Believe, World
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.407, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

Rabindranath Tagore
Encouragement, Joy, Elements
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.37, Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Truth, Reality
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.16, Rabindranath Tagore

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Rabindranath Tagore
Animal, Men, Air
Stray Birds 43

We live in the world when we love it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Inspirational, Live In The Moment

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

Rabindranath Tagore
Encouragement, Brave, Suffering
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”

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore
Love, God, Spiritual
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Rabindranath Tagore
Positive, Encouraging, Dark

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

Rabindranath Tagore
Giving, Forever, Lasts
Rabindranath Tagore (2003). “A Grain of Sand: Chokher Bali”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Strong, Trying, Weakness
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Rabindranath Tagore
Giving Up, Desire, Kind

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore
Encouragement, Flower, Adventure

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Real, Intimate Relationships

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Rabindranath Tagore
Liberty, Ethics
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1950). “Three Plays: Mukta-dhara, Natir Puja, Chandalika”

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Knows, Ifs
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”

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom, Fun, Discipline
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.220, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Rabindranath Tagore
Animal, Men, Animal Cruelty
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.41, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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

Rabindranath Tagore
Dark, Lamps, Hours
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.19, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

Rabindranath Tagore
Country, Wall, Father
Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Rabindranath Tagore
Thankful, Encouragement, Power

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

Rabindranath Tagore
Vedre Narayan Karan Reddy, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1973). “The Concept of Man in Rabindranath Tagore and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan”, Bangalore : IBH Prakashana

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Simple, Expression
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.76, Rabindranath Tagore

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