Rabindranath Tagore

31 quotes

Lived: 1861 – 1941
Era: Modern
Place: Kolkata (Calcutta), India

Bengali poet, educator, and Nobel laureate whose songs and verses bridged India and the wider world.

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Clouds come floating into my life, not to usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
— Rabindranath TagoreCourage
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might.
— Rabindranath TagoreCourage
Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.
— Rabindranath TagoreGratitude
Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows.
— Rabindranath TagoreStrength
I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus am I blessed.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
When I go from hence let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Hidden in the heart of things thou art nourishing seeds into sprouts, buds into blossoms, and ripening flowers into fruitfulness.
— Rabindranath TagoreGratitude
Under thy great sky in solitude and silence, with humble heart shall I stand before thee face to face.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Night’s darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.
— Rabindranath TagoreHope
Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.
— Rabindranath TagoreGrowth
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
— Rabindranath TagoreGrowth
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
— Rabindranath TagoreGratitude
The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.
— Rabindranath TagoreStrength
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light!
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual
God’s great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
— Rabindranath TagoreSpiritual