Top 25 Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore of 435 - Page 9

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wings, Bird, Gold

Rabindranath Tagore (1949). “Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore”

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love, World, Filling

Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.80, Tuttle Publishing

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

Sunset, Silence, Gone

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

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mystery, Infinite, Made

Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.63, Rabindranath Tagore

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Rabindranath Tagore

Power, Men, Weakness

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.74, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

Rabindranath Tagore

Decision, Indecision, Plans

Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “The Wreck”

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

Rabindranath Tagore

Song, Pain, Soul

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.415, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Merely to exist is not enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

Enough, Existence

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”

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

Rabindranath Tagore

Country, Men, Ideas

Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.82, Rabindranath Tagore

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beautiful, Song, Pain

Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.39, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

Rabindranath Tagore

Men, Rough, Products

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”

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Flower, Carpe Diem

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

Humble, Humility, Great Teacher

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

Rabindranath Tagore

Strong, Eye, Laughing

"The Gardener". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 27, 1915.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Rabindranath Tagore

Tree, Soil, Ghost

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

Blessed, Doe, Reputation

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.430, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Mirrors, Flattery

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore

Art, Real, Creativity

Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.69, Ravenio Books

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

Rabindranath Tagore

Hope, Children, Men

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

Flower, Greed, Missing

Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

Rabindranath Tagore

Moving, Twists, Tables

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.

Rabindranath Tagore

Sports, Passion, Heart

Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

Rabindranath Tagore

Beautiful, Crush, Greed

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.507, Atlantic Publishers & Dist