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.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREThe water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
More Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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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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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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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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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.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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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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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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