I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREGod waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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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.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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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.
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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