Rabindranath Tagore
For man is by nature an artist.Collection: Nature
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.Collection: Nature
Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.Collection: Voice
Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!Collection: God
It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.Collection: Men
The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken SongCollection: Song
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.Collection: Inspirational
I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.Collection: Country
The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.Collection: People
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 thereCollection: Inspiration
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.Collection: Death
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.Collection: God
There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.Collection: Afterlife
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the thingsCollection: Heart
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.Collection: Guests
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.Collection: Smile
I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.Collection: Gazing
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.Collection: Patience
It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.Collection: God
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.Collection: Beach
Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.Collection: God
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.Collection: God
Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.Collection: Encouragement
Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.Collection: Dream
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.Collection: Parting Words
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.Collection: Paper
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.Collection: Stars
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.Collection: Spiritual
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.Collection: God
When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.Collection: Men
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.Collection: Death
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.Collection: Nature
Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.Collection: Night
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.Collection: Queens
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.Collection: Song
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.Collection: Life
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victimsCollection: Thankful
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Country
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Lakes
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Heart
It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.Collection: Heart
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.Collection: Bravery
Dreams can never be made captive.Collection: Dream
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.Collection: Mother
Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.Collection: Brave