Rabindranath Tagore, a literary genius and Nobel laureate, has left behind a treasure trove of wisdom that continues to guide and inspire people across the world. His insightful reflections on life, spirituality, and human emotions resonate deeply, transcending time and culture. In this blog, we present Unveiling Wisdom Through Inspiring Quotes of Rabindranath Tagore in English, a curated collection of his most profound thoughts. Each quote is a window into Tagore’s understanding of the world, offering timeless lessons and inspiration for the journey of life. Let his words lead you to new horizons of thought and inner peace.
Inspiring Quotes of Rabindranath Tagore in English
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“Loves gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“Dont limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
“If I cant make it through one door, Ill go through another door- or ill make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
“The biggest changes in a womens nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
“We live in the world when we love it.”
“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
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“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side, said the dewdrop to the lake.”
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ”
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“Trees are the earths endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
“The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”
“Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”
“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”
“We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.”
“Age considers; youth ventures.”
“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from mans hands. ”
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
“Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down”
“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”
“I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things”
“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”
“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance”
“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”
“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”
“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ”
“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”
“Inspiration follows aspiration.”
“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”
“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”
“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.”
“Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”
“Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones — the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”
“Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
“Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?”
“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”
“Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”
“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”
“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.”
“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”
“Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!”
“The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song”
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
“Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of Gods own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.”
“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”
“Dreams can never be made captive.”
“Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage. ”
“to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country”
“The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”
“Let me not look for allies in lifes battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.”
“I have lost my dewdrop”, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars”
“The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”
“The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.”
“When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.”
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
“I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.”
“He alone may chastise who loves.”
“Read books when you are free, read minds when you arent….but do read…”
