Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

When two-three different religions claim that only their own religions are true and all other religions are false, their religions are only ways to Heaven, conflicts can not be avoided. Thus, fundamentalism tries to abolish all other religions. This is called Bolshevism in religion. Only the path shown by the Hinduism can relieve the world from this meanness.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

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

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

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

جاء في صمت الليل
يحمل فى يده قيثارة
وكانت احلامي تتردد فى انغامه
أواه
لماذ تكون ليالي ضائعة
هكذا على الدوام
ولماذا اضيع دائما روية
ذلك الذى انغامه
تلمس احلامي

المديح يخجلني، مع أنني أسعى إليه سرًا

Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

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

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.

The light of thy music illumines the world. The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky. The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on.

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