"Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness."
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Rabindranath Tagore quotes (page 21 of 22)
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"Dreams can never be made captive."
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"Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer."
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"I am hidden in your heart, O Flower."
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"Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover."
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"The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'"
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"God finds himself by creating."
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"The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation."
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"Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin"
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"Repentance is a gift of God's grace."
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"to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country"
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"The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original."
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"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."
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"It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment."
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"that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time."
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"Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!"
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"We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers."
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"Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness."
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"Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved."
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"I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things"
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