Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

"It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realization, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from our God, setting up disunion and arrogance of exclusiveness. For sin"

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness"

"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."

"Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed from the side of the obstacle, nature appears inimical to the idea of morality. But if that were abs"

"Those who own much have much to fear"

"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."

"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."

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

"If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. The i"

"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."

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

"Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love."

"Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer."

"The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist."

"God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience."

"To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad. This relation of understanding is partial, but the relation of love is complete. In love the sense of difference"

"There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not"

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