Famous Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

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.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless when facing them.

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

We live in the world when we love it.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal.

Love is the only reality, and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.