Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, Indian, In 1861. He was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist. In 1913 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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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
The greed for fruit misses the flower.
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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.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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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.
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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.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Death belongs to life as birth does the walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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In art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Someday 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.
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Dreams can never be made captive.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.
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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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Men are cruel, but man is kind.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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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.
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
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If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.
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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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The traveller 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.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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He who is too busy doing good, finds no time to be good.
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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.
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Inspiration follows aspiration.
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The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
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The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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He who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students.
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I have lost my dewdrop, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.
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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.
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Never be afraid of the moments, thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.
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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realising on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
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Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
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The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
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And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away, in the very next moment. To Find in the left one its consolation.
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The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears.
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The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
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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?
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Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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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.
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That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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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.
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These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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