"Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love"
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet and philosopher, renowned for his profound insights into love and humanity, notably through his work 'Gitanjali'.
- Born
- May 7, 1861
- Died
- August 7, 1941
- Quotes
- 435
- Rank
- #50
Quote collection
Rabindranath Tagore quotes (page 4 of 22)
435 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies."
"Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal."
"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water."
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
"Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky."
"Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it."
"Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name."
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
"All that is not given is lost."
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"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."
"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
"You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed."
"Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart."
"Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
"Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose."
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."