Tuesday 7 April 2015

50 Great lines of RABINDRANATH TAGORE






1. “If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.”

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

3.  “When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

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

5.  “I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so  much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I      then felt.”

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

7. “All my work and all my dealings with people feel very easy. Actually, everything is simple. There is one straight road - if you open your eyes you can go along it. I don't see the need to search for all sorts of clever short cuts. Happiness and sadness are both on the road - there is no road that avoids them - but peace is found only on this road, nowhere else.” 

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

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

10. “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

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

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

13. “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.” 

14. “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.”

15. “A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.'

16.  “Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”
17. “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.”

18. “Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.” 

19. “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.” 

20. “Inspiration follows aspiration.”

21. “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance”

22. “Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”

23. “The greed for fruit misses the flower.” 

24. “Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”

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

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

27. “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.” 

28. “Age considers; youth ventures.”

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

30. My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.”

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

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

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

34. “Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ” 

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

36. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song.

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

38. “The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition” 


39.  “Music fills the infinite between two souls”

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

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

42. “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.”

43. “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.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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