110+ Rabindranath Tagore Quotes On In Bengali, Trees And Education

Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet, novelist, musician, playwright, and painter. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore is considered one of the greatest literary figures of modern India and is known for his poems, novels, and plays. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rabindranath Tagore on love, love in bengali, life.

Top 10 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

1. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
2. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
3. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
4. Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
5. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
6. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
7. 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.
8. Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
9. The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
10. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore Image Quotes

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light. — Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. — Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear. — Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. — Rabindranath Tagore

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Short Quotes

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
• Those who own much have much to fear.
• You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
• Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
• The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.
• The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
• Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
• We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
• Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Love

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. — Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. — Rabindranath Tagore

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul. — Rabindranath Tagore

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. — Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Life

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. — Rabindranath Tagore

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. — Rabindranath Tagore

... 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. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. — Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Trees

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. — Rabindranath Tagore

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words. — Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. — Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. — Rabindranath Tagore

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green. — Rabindranath Tagore

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. — Rabindranath Tagore

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth — Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Success

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted. — Rabindranath Tagore

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Freedom

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom. — Rabindranath Tagore

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip. — Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price... — Rabindranath Tagore

He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it. — Rabindranath Tagore

Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. — Rabindranath Tagore

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself. — Rabindranath Tagore

Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation. — Rabindranath Tagore

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 for the patience to win my freedom. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Child

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. — Rabindranath Tagore

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons — Rabindranath Tagore

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow. — Rabindranath Tagore

And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation. — Rabindranath Tagore

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child. — Rabindranath Tagore

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. — Rabindranath Tagore

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history. — Rabindranath Tagore

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Creative

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms — Rabindranath Tagore

Our creation is the modification of relationship. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Spiritual

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. — Rabindranath Tagore

True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth. — Rabindranath Tagore

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. — Rabindranath Tagore

Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. — Rabindranath Tagore

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else. — Rabindranath Tagore

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support. — 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 there — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. — Rabindranath Tagore

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Truth

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv — Rabindranath Tagore

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite. — Rabindranath Tagore

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. — Rabindranath Tagore

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. — Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. — Rabindranath Tagore

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest. — Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one. — Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. — Rabindranath Tagore

The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth. — Rabindranath Tagore

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes About Dark

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light. — Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. — 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! — Rabindranath Tagore

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan. — Rabindranath Tagore

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life. — Rabindranath Tagore

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. — Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. 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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Famous Quotes And Sayings

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. — Rabindranath Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever. — Rabindranath Tagore

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. — Rabindranath Tagore

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. — Rabindranath Tagore

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. — Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent. — Rabindranath Tagore

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. — Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. — Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. — Rabindranath Tagore

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart. — Rabindranath Tagore

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed. — Rabindranath Tagore

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. — Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. — Rabindranath Tagore

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow. — Rabindranath Tagore

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant. — Rabindranath Tagore

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. — Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. — Rabindranath Tagore

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. — Rabindranath Tagore

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door. — Rabindranath Tagore

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite. — Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls. — Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. — Rabindranath Tagore

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist. — Rabindranath Tagore

I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement. — Rabindranath Tagore

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. — Rabindranath Tagore

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. — Rabindranath Tagore

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk. — Rabindranath Tagore

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart — Rabindranath Tagore

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. — Rabindranath Tagore

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations. — Rabindranath Tagore

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky. — Rabindranath Tagore

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day. — Rabindranath Tagore

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. — Rabindranath Tagore

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. — Rabindranath Tagore

Life Lessons by Rabindranath Tagore

1. Rabindranath Tagore taught the importance of understanding and appreciating the beauty of nature and the world around us. He also encouraged us to think deeply and to be creative in our pursuits.
2. He also emphasized the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures and beliefs, and to be open to different perspectives.
3. Tagore also taught us to be compassionate and kind to others, and to strive for a life of inner peace and contentment.