Rabindra Jayanti is an annual Indian celebration commemorating the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, a famous Bengali poet, writer, composer, and artist. Here are some inspiring and motivating Rabindranath Tagore quotes:
Rabindranath Tagore Messages and Quotes 2023
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
"The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough."
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist."
"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive 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."
"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."
"The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence."
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden."
"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."
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
"We live in the world when we love it."
"Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence."
"I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance."
"The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."
"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition."