Oneness amongst men, the advancement of unity in diversity? This has been the core religion of India.
—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. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Life
Life’s errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Harmony
If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Mistakes, Truth
Age considers; youth ventures.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Age, Aging
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation 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
In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Belief, Audiences
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Joy
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.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Adventure
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Stars
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Friendship
I’m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth’s last love. I will take life’s final offering; I will take the last human blessing.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Birthdays
In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. 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 realise the infinite. It is death which is monistic, it has no life in it. But life is dualistic; it has an appearance as well as truth; and death is that appearance, that maya, which is an inseparable companion to life.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Harmony
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: One liners, Music
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
—Rabindranath Tagore
God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Obedience
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
Topics: Morning
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Society
All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit—the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.
—Rabindranath Tagore
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. It’s one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment’s hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Money, Greed
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Existence
We live in the world when we love it.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Love
When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part without fruits with joy.
—Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
—Rabindranath Tagore
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Love
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Laughter
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty… is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us – in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Vegetarianism
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed
—Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Gardening, Earth
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Topics: Freedom
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