Rabindranath Tagore Quotes and Sayings

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

I slept and dream that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The Stronger is the imagination, the less imaginary it is.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

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

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

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.

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.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.