Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
- Rabindranath Tagore
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore


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