Rabindranath Tagore quotes - page 5

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. View quote
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. View quote
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second. View quote
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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. View quote
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. View quote
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My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it's for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won't ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die. View quote
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. View quote
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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. View quote
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Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. View quote
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Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection. View quote
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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. View quote
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I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things. View quote
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The greed for fruit misses the flower. View quote
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress. View quote
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Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house-do not pass by like a dream. View quote
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for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself. View quote
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. (Rabindranath Tagore)
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. View quote
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Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep? View quote
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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. View quote
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The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original. View quote
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