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

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

- Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

- 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

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

- Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls

- Rabindranath Tagore

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love in man, by ambition

- Rabindranath Tagore

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

- Fireflies, Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

- Rabindranath Tagore

We cross infinity with every step we meet eternity in every second.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers youth ventures.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

- Lover's Gift, Rabindranath Tagore

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

- Rabindranath Tagore

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- Rabindranath Tagore

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

- Rabindranath Tagore

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

- Rabindranath Tagore

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

- Gitanjali: Song Offerings, Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

- Fireflies: A Collection of Proverbs, Rabindranath Tagore

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

- Rabindranath Tagore

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

- Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Inspiration follows aspiration.

- Rabindranath Tagore

For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

- The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house&mdashdo not pass by like a dream.

- Gitanjali: Song Offerings, Rabindranath Tagore

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

- Rabindranath Tagore

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

- Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore

Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

- Gitanjali: Song Offerings, Rabindranath Tagore

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.

- Stray Birds, 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.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

- Gitanjali: Song Offerings, Rabindranath Tagore

Dreams can never be made captive.

- The Gardener, Rabindranath Tagore

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

- Selected Poems, Rabindranath Tagore

That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

- The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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.

- The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

- The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore

Seorang guru tidak akan pernah bisa benar-benar mengajar kecuali dia sendiri masih belajar sebuah lampu tidak akan menyalakan lampu lain kecuali ia terus menyala dengan apinya sendiri

- Rabindranath Tagore

Apaga si quieres tu luz, yo descubriré tu oscuridad y la amaré.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

- The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

- Rabindranath Tagore

He alone may chastise who loves.

- Rabindranath Tagore

I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.

- Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore

I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Biarlah saya berdoa, bukan untuk dilindungi dari kejahatan, tetapi agar berani menghadapinya.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

- Rabindranath Tagore