51 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes That Are Inspirational and Wise

The writer of Indian National Anthem, the writer of Bangladesh's National Anthem, the person to have inspired Sri Lanka's National Anthem with his work, the first Non-European and also the first lyricist to win a Nobel Prize in literature - Rabindranath Tagore.

Not just this, he was a renowned poet, painter, writer, composer, and philosopher. Due to his achievements, Rabindranath Tagore is also known as the 'Bard of Bengal'.

Having achieved so much, especially as a writer of short stories, poems, novels, and songs, there is no doubt that quotes by Rabindranath Tagore are must-read. Therefore, in this Feeding Trends article, we bring to you a list of some sublime Rabindranath Tagore quotes.

Here we have made a list of 51 quotes of Rabindranath Tagore for you to cherish.

51 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes That Are Inspirational and Wise

1. Leave out my name from the gift if it is a burden but keep my song.

2. Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from the action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

3. The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

4. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

5. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

6. Age considers; youth ventures.

7. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

8. The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

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

10. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

11. Asks the Possible of the Impossible, Where is your dwelling-place? In the dreams of the Impotent, comes the answer.

12. To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad.

13. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

14. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is the law.

15. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

16. To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

17. I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

18. The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?

19. Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

20. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

21. The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. It's one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

22. Let me light my lamp, says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.

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

24. 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, but for the heart to conquer it.

25. Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

26. Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.

27. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

28. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

29. Those who own much have much to fear.

30. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

31. I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering; I will take the last human blessing.

32. In our desire for eternal life, we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life.

33. Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

34. The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.

35. The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

36. The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

37. Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

38. We [poets] set men free from their desires.

39. The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

40. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

41. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth are noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth, and the music of the air.

42. In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

43. Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

44. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

45. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

46. The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is a pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

47. Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.

48. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

49. No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

50. We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

51. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.