Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  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”

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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

• I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Giving, Able

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.590, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Giving, Forever, Lasts

  Rabindranath Tagore (2003). “A Grain of Sand: Chokher Bali”, p.176, Penguin Books India

• 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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational Life, Adventure, Space

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Teaching, Past, Doors

• Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Death, Giving, Coins

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.407, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.700, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Kindness, Generosity

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• [The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Air, Voice, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.741, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Rainy Day, Giving, Sunlight

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Giving, Answers

  Rabindranath Tagore (1919). “The Cycle of Spring”

• And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Knowing, Giving, Action

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.12, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Peace, Heart, Hands

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Heart, Science

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.126, Sahitya Akademi

• The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thinking, Air, Giving

• Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Heart, Roots

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.36, Read Books Ltd

• Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love Is, Giving, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

• Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Children, Love Life

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Life”

• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Passion, Self, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.30, BookRix

• The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Giving Up, Desire, Kind

• Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Men, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.581, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Men, Ideas

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.82, Rabindranath Tagore

• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Self, Views, Law

• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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