Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
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
Trees are the earth`s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
You can`t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, 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.
In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m
Age considers; youth ventures.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
