Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Biography: Rabindranath Tagore was a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, and playwri... more Biography: Rabindranath Tagore was a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, and playwright. He reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Tagore's works include "Gitanjali" and "The Home and the World." less

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark""Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light""Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree""God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands""Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them""Our nature is obscured by our ideas. We are infinitely rich, yet we keep looking at a room full of coins to measure our wealth""A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it""Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven""The world tells you to pursue success as if it is the key to happiness. The key to true, lasting happiness is to pursue wisdom""The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies""Let your faith be bigger than your fear""We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility""The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful""By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower""I look on the nights as a cup on which I have filled to the brim with my loneliness and thrown to the sky""Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.""Men are cruel, but Man is kind.""I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.""It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.""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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