rabindranath tagore Quotes

Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- 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, butfor the heart to conquer it.

- Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.

- Rabindranath Tagore, The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

We live in the world when we love it.

- 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

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.