Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that reflects no light, that is blind to the infinite. Our self is loud with its own discordant clamour - it is not the tuned harp whose chords vibrate with the music of the eternal. Sighs of discontent and weariness of failure, idle regrets for the past and anxieties for the future are troubling our shallow hearts because we have not found our souls, and the self-revealing spirit has not been manifest within us. Hence our cry.

The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.