Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet and writer who lived from 1861 to 1941. He wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. In 1913, Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This is a collection of quotes by Rabindranath Tagore.

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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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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.
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Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
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I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
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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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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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Light the lamp of thy love.
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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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.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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