Rabindranath Tagore quotes - page 10

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air. View quote
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We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind. View quote
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Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind. View quote
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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. View quote
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Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. View quote
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support. View quote
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Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. View quote
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Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. View quote
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Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God. View quote
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And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. (Rabindranath Tagore)
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality. View quote
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The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. View quote
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A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. View quote
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By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess. View quote
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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element. View quote
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources. View quote
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In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m. View quote
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If life's journey be endless where is its goal The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. The i. View quote
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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travelers to cross their strictly guarded borders. View quote
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India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the i. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms. View quote
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The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. View quote
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The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize. View quote
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The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. View quote
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