Rabindranath Tagore
Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.Collection: Success
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.Collection: God
Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.Collection: Night
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.Collection: Evil
If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.Collection: Diversity
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.Collection: Touching You
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 therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.Collection: Self
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.Collection: Peace
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?Collection: Sleep
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.Collection: Inspirational
The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.Collection: Song
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.Collection: Winning
You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.Collection: Brother
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….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Power
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.Collection: Sight
Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!Collection: Heart
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.Collection: Illumination
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.Collection: Moving
By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.Collection: Art
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.Collection: Encouragement
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.Collection: Distance
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.Collection: Greatness
The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.Collection: Country
Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".Collection: Night
The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.Collection: Song
Love gives beauty to everything it touches.Collection: Giving
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.Collection: Shadow
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.Collection: Love
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.Collection: Truth
To find God, you must welcome everything.Collection: Welcome
... 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.Collection: Race
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Effort
The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.Collection: Giving Up
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.Collection: Inspirational
Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.Collection: Flower
The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.Collection: Love
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambitionCollection: Ambition
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.Collection: Treasure
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.Collection: Art
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.Collection: Beautiful
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.Collection: Spiritual
The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.Collection: Differences
Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Art
Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.Collection: Soul
Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.Collection: Dark
Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darknessCollection: Stars