Rabindranath Tagore

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom."

- 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

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

- 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

"A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- 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."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the top of a leaf."

- 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

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

""The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.""

- 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

"The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Age considers; youth ventures."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"

- Rabindranath Tagore

"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Say not in grief that he is no more, but live in thankfulness that he was."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was. A death is not the extinguishing of a light but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

- 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

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- 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

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I touch god in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again."

- Rabindranath Tagore