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Rabindranath Tagore QUOTES

1 " Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , Selected Poems

2 " You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

3 " Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

4 " Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

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

― Rabindranath Tagore , Stray Birds

6 " The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

7 " Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

8 " YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

9 " Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , Gitanjali

10 " The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition "

― Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore QUOTES

11 " Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

12 " 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

13 " I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and 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. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

14 " 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. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , Lover's Gift

15 " I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man "

― Rabindranath Tagore

16 " Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

17 " 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; it is the true center of gravity of our life. This we can attain during our childhood by daily living in a place where the truth of the spiritual world is not obscured by a crowd of necessities assuming artificial importance; where life is simple, surrounded by fullness of leisure, by ample space and pure air and profound peace of nature; and where men live with a perfect faith in the eternal life before them. "

― Rabindranath Tagore

18 " Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , The Home and the World

19 " 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

20 " His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , The Home and the World