Rabindranath Tagore Quotes - Page 11

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• Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

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  Strong, Eye, Laughing

  "The Gardener". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 27, 1915.

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• Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

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  Fog, Dawn, Tongue

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

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• Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

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  Children, School, People

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.78, Sahitya Akademi

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

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  Thinking, Air, Giving

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• The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

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  Smile, Dream, Baby

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

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  Art, Lovers, Slave

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.15, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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  Past, Self, Lust

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana the Realization of Life”, p.109, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

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  Birthday, Blessing, Offering

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• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Gains

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

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  Inspirational, Change, Creative

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• O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

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  Beauty, Mirrors, Flattery

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

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  Beauty, Sweet, Men

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• We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

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  Stars, Men, Sky

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated Edition)”, p.1867, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

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  Love, Relationship, Wisdom

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds 81 - 90”

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• I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

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  Moving, Twists, Tables

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• He alone may chastise who loves.

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  May

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• Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

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  Stars, Flower, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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• Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

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  Bravery, Certain, Mere

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.106, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

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  Taken, Apology, Water

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

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  Pain, Life And Death, Joy

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• Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

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  Pain, Heart, Grieving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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.

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  Life, Heart, Science

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

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• Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

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  Dark, Light, Bird

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• Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

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  Prayer, Play, May

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.34, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

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  Peace, Pleasure, Made

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

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