Rabindranath Tagore Quotes



       “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

        “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Music fills the infinite between two souls” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “We live in the world when we love it.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
- Rabindranath Tagore


        “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
-Rabindranath Tagore

       “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

        “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

        “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

        “Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore,

      “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
- Rabindranath Tagore


       “Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore,


      “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “We cross infinity with every step;
we meet eternity in every second.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore,

        “God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. ” 
- Rabindranath Tagore,

       “Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Inspiration follows aspiration.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

      “Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

        “Do not limit a child to your won learning, for he was born in another time.”
- Rabindranath Tagore


       “A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.” 
- Rabindranath Tagore

       “The Stronger is the imagination the less imaginary it is” 
- Rabindranath Tagore