Rabindranath Tagore Quotes and Sayings

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate. He who loves finds the door open.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the star

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.