Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

"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."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

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

"Age considers; youth ventures."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize."

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

"When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler"

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

"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"

"In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin"

"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"

"The current of the world has its boundaries, otherwise it could have no existence, but its purpose is not shown in the boundaries which restrain it, but in its movement, which is toward perfection. The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and"

"The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?"

"Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil."

"The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil."

"Man's cry is to reach his fullest expression."

"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"