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.Collection: God
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.Collection: Change
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Success
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.Collection: Art
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.Collection: Time
Truth reveals itself in beauty.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Inspirational
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.Collection: Peace
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Life
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the airCollection: Thinking
O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.Collection: Dream
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Stars
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.Collection: Ideas
that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.Collection: Moments
to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the countryCollection: Country
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.Collection: Responsibility
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?Collection: Art
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.Collection: Power
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.Collection: Sky
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.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Country
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.Collection: Firefly
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Inspirational Life
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.Collection: Giving
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.Collection: Inspirational
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.Collection: Stars
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 lessonsCollection: Children
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.Collection: Inspirational
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.Collection: Ideas
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Spiritual
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.Collection: Rivers
To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.Collection: Decision
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.Collection: Kindness
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Prayer
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.Collection: Tragedy
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.Collection: Flower
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.Collection: Unhappy
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.Collection: Children
It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.Collection: Impossible Things
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'Collection: Tears
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.Collection: Echoes
In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.Collection: Dream