Facts about Rabindranath Tagore 
Summary
Rabindranath Tagore (born in Jorasanko mansion, Calcutta, India) was a famous Poet from India, who lived between May 6, 1861 and August 7, 1941.
Biography
Rabindranath Tagore was Indian (Hindu) philosopher, nationalist and writer. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Wrote the text of India's national anthem Jana Gana-Mana-and Bangladesh national anthem Amar Sonar Bangla. Tagore wrote in both Bengali and English. He was the son of the philosopher Debendranath Tagore. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 45 quotes who is written / told by Rabindranath, under the main topics: Age, Faith, Inspirational.
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Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
Famous quotes by Rabindranath Tagore (45)
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence"
"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself"
"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth"
"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it"
"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror"
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it"
"I have become my own version of an optimist. 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"
"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"
"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"
"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest"
"Facts are many, but the truth is one"
"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it"
"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on"
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man"
"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree"
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time"
"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"
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance"
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come"
"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower"
"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol"
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real"
"We live in the world when we love it"
"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price"
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility"
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven"
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation"
"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law"
"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it"
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom"
"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it"
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them"
"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects"
"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out"
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy"
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky"
"Age considers; youth ventures"
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"
"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous"
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough"
"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come"
"Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven"
"Those who own much have much to fear"
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