Rabindranath Tagore quotes - page 4

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes. (Rabindranath Tagore)
It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth! View quote
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When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. View quote
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life. View quote
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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history. View quote
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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment. View quote
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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. View quote
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I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall. View quote
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The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. View quote
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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. View quote
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When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Let me light my lamp, says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness. View quote
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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. View quote
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The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart... View quote
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart. View quote
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In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret. View quote
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One of the many suppressed longings of creation which cry after fulfilment is for neglected joys within reach; while we are busy pursuing chimerical impossibilities we famish our lives...The emptiness left by easy joys, untasted, is ever growing in my life. And the day may come when I shall feel that, could I but have the past back, I would strive no more after the unattainable, but drain to the full these little, unsought, everyday joys which life offers. View quote
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When two-three different religions claim that only their own religions are true and all other religions are false, their religions are only ways to Heaven, conflicts can not be avoided. Thus, fundamentalism tries to abolish all other religions. This is called Bolshevism in religion. Only the path shown by the Hinduism can relieve the world form this meanness. View quote
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The terrible situation of the country makes my mind restless and I cannot keep silent. Meaningless ritual keep the Hindus divided in hundred sects. Sop we are suffering from series of defeats. We are tired and worn-out by the fortunes by the internal external enemies. The Muslims are united in religion and rituals. The Bengali Muslims the South Indian Muslims and even the Muslims outside India-all are united. They always stand untied in face of danger. The broken and divided Hindus will not be able to combat them. Days are coming when the Hindus will be again humiliated by the Muslims. "You are a mother of children, one day you will die, passing the future of Hindus society on the weak shoulders of your children, but think about their future." View quote
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Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. View quote
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The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. View quote
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. View quote
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When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you. View quote
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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. View quote
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