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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

99 Motivational Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore, The Author Of Gitanjali

Famous As: Poet

Born On: 1861

Died On: 1941

Born In: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Died At Age: 80

‘It is so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple’ a powerful quote by Rabindranath Tagore gives some potent life and living goals to swear by. A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta, India, Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music as Indian art of the 19^th and 20^th century. Popularly known as the Bard of Bengal, Tagore is best remembered for his sensitive and beautiful verse that has a magical touch to it. He was an exponent of Bengali Renaissance and a polymath who modernised Bengali art by spinning novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays that covered a wide range of topics, from politics to religion and spirituality. He was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his selected poetry collection titled, ‘Gitanjali’. Till date, his poetry, novels, short stories, and essays are widely read across the globe. His legacy survives in the form of paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; most of which continue to reverberate around the eastern part of India and throughout Bangladesh. His quotes also echo his legacy as a Bengali polymath and Renaissance artist and touch a wide variety of topics like politics, spirituality, meaning of life, happiness, family, religion and so on. Find below some of the most renowned quotes by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Life
Rabindranath Tagore

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
You Life Will
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.

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.
Me Heart
Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Life I
Rabindranath Tagore

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

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Time
Rabindranath Tagore

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

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
You Life I
Rabindranath Tagore

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
You
Rabindranath Tagore

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.

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.
Like
Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Like
Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Life Time Like
Rabindranath Tagore

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.

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.
Believe
Rabindranath Tagore

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

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
You
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
Love
Rabindranath Tagore

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

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
You Me I
Rabindranath Tagore

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

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath Tagore

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.

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.
Will I
Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls

Music fills the infinite between two souls
Music
Rabindranath Tagore

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

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
Nature
Rabindranath Tagore

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
I
Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
Love
Rabindranath Tagore

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.

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.
Never Will I
Rabindranath Tagore