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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Education
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.401, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Inspiring, Encouragement

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Life, Lying

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Motivational, Dance
Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Doors, Forever

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Encouragement, Fear

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Wisdom, Dark

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. 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 hope for the patience to win my freedom. 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
Life, Pain, Failure
Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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

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”

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

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.

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

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Funny, Life
"Stray Birds".

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

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

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Blessed, World

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Cute, Men
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.245, Sahitya Akademi

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Kindness, Generosity
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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”

In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. 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
Life, Strong, Love Is
"The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Heart, Science
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.126, Sahitya Akademi

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Mean
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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