Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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• A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.64, Sahitya Akademi

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  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

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  Independence, Mind, India

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.22, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

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  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

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  Prayer, Flower, Heart

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

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  Knowing, Tree, Meaning Of Life

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

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  Life, Inspiring, Encouragement

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.401, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

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  Pain, Men, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.37, Rabindranath Tagore

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• A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

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  Education, Reading, Writing

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• ... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

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  Race, Differences, Personality

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.712, Sahitya Akademi

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  I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Insperational

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• We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

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  Identity, Facts, Truth Is

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.377, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

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  Soul, World, Found

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Healing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.429, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

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  Men, Thinking, Understanding

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

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• The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

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  Teaching, Past, Doors

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• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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

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  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• 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.

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  Effort, Comfort, Selfless

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

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  Motivational, Adventure, Positivity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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  Love, Inspirational, Sad

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

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  Love, Distance, World

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• I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

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  Past, Rivers, House

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