Top 25 Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore of 435 - Page 7

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.

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Life, Healing

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.429, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Flower, Butterfly

Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

Rabindranath Tagore

Kings, Real, Technology

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

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mother, Rest In Peace, Children

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.47, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Rabindranath Tagore

Hair, Age, Tongue

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Freedom, Tree

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.594, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Rabindranath Tagore

People, Shame, Ashamed

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”

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music, Art, Singers

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Life, Lasts

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.433, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Flower, Heart

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.16, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.

Rabindranath Tagore

Morning, Memories, Spring

Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.520, Delphi Classics

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

Rabindranath Tagore

Children, Tyrants, Adults

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

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Rabindranath Tagore

Birthday, Blessing, Offering

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Humanity, Society

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Sweet, Men

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

Firefly, Dark, Light

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.437, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Rabindranath Tagore

Night, Darkness, Gold

"Stray Birds".

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

Rabindranath Tagore

Death, Mother, Night

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mistake, Neighborhood

"Fireflies".

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

Rabindranath Tagore

Men, Law, Names

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Miscellaneous writings”, p.1236, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Rabindranath Tagore

Joy, Inward, Outward Beauty

Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wisdom, Eternity, Found

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

Rabindranath Tagore

Spiritual, Men, Keys

Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.22, Rabindranath Tagore

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

Rabindranath Tagore

Grace, God's Grace, Repentance

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”