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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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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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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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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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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "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, Adventure, Space

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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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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

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Country, Wall, Father

Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

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Flower, Love Is, Soul

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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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Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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Truth, Honesty, Winning

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Born: May 7, 1861
Died: August 7, 1941
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