Rabindranath Tagore on freedom
Rabindranath Tagore74 quotes“Power said to the world, you are mine. The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, I am thine. The world gave it the freedom of her house.”
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore 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.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore
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