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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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  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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• ... 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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  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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• Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

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  Liberty, Ethics

  Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1950). “Three Plays: Mukta-dhara, Natir Puja, Chandalika”

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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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• Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.

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  Song, Dark, Light

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• Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Discipline

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.220, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

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  Beauty, Eye, Reality

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• There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

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  Men, Law, Names

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Miscellaneous writings”, p.1236, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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  Positive, Encouraging, Dark

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

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  Stars, Light, Darkness

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.472, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

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  Differences, Wipe, Problem

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• Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

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  Spiritual, Glasses, Long

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

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  Life, Pain, Failure

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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