If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.Stray Birds, 1916
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a renowned Indian poet, writer, composer, and painter who reshaped Bengali literature and music. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems titled Gitanjali. Tagore's works continue to inspire and resonate globally for their universal themes of love, nature, and spirituality.
1861–1941·lived 80 years
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.Stray Birds, 1916
A mind that’s all logic is like a knife that’s all blade. It cuts the hand that wields it.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.Stray Birds, p. 45, 1916
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.The Gardener, 1915
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.Fireflies
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.The Religion of Man, p. 45, 1931
Age considers; youth ventures.The Crescent Moon, 1913
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.Stray Birds, 1916
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.Poems On Beauty, 2011
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them, 1916
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Sadhana: The Realization of Life, 1913
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.Stray Birds, p. 235, 1921
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.Gitanjali, p. 42, 1910
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.Stray Birds, p. 25, 1916
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.Gems of the Orient, A. Huebsch, 1877
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.Stray Birds, p. 8, 1916
That’s all 21 quotes by Rabindranath Tagore.