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

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  Life, Wisdom, Dark

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

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  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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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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• 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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• 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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• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

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  Encouragement, Brave, Suffering

  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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• Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

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  Truth, Honesty, Winning

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• The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

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  Strong, Trying, Weakness

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, 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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• Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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