Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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

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

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

We live in the world when we love it.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youths dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

“I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and 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.”

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

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

“Loves gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”