Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

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Truth can only be verified through opposition and obstacles.

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When we realize the truth, our soul finds satisfaction even in its inadequacies and imperfections.

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Many people can say good things, but very few can listen to them, because that requires a strong mind.

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Pessimism is a form of soul alcoholism.

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He who uses his strength shows his weakness.

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A keen and horizonless mind leaps forward at every step, but cannot advance.

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

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Life never takes death seriously. She laughs, dances and plays, she builds, gathers and loves in the face of death. It is only when we perceive a single gesture of death that we realize how desolate it is and become troubled.

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Close the doors to all error and the truth will not be able to enter.

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When a particular religion arrogates its claim to impose its dogma on all mankind, it becomes tyranny.

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He who thinks too much about doing good, has no time to be good.

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A lie will never be able to turn into truth if it turns into force.

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If you close your door to all mistakes, you also exclude your Truth.

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There are those whose tears flow out in the light, and there are those who hide their tears in the dark.

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Pride carves its stern look into stones, love hides it in flowers.

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If you cry because the sun is gone, the stars are gone too.

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The great desert cries for the love of a single blade of grass, but it shakes its head, laughs and runs away.

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The pain of losing your memories is like silent, dark hours in which there are no birdsongs, only the chirping of crickets.

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Time has no mercy on the human heart and laughs at its sad struggle for memory.

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Let my heart crash its waves against the shore of the world and write its name on it with these words: - I love you!

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My clouds are sad in the dark, they forget that they themselves hid the sunlight.

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Hope is a bird that already knows it's dawn, even though the sky is still dark.

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I slept and dreamed: life is joy. I woke up and saw that life is a duty. I worked and saw that duty is a joy.

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The world loved the man when he smiled, but was afraid when he laughed out loud.

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As the seagull and the wave meet, so we meet and approach each other. The seagulls fly away, the waves roll in, and we say goodbye.

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Love is the silk of the soul, the velvet flower of the heart, the seed of which was planted by creation in every heart, but which only matures into a truly magnificent flower in every thousandth heart.

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Let the Earth, the sky and the sea, the many birds, the Moon and all people be my witnesses, I give you my heart, no one else, and my life as an addition!

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You can't cross the sea just by staring at the water.

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We once dreamed that we were strangers. We woke up to see how dear we are to each other.

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It's so easy to be happy, but it's so hard to be simple.

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The root is sure that the branch is just a boho fool and the earth is reality. The sky with its light is an empty imagination.

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Love is sacred, and those who suffer for love are taken up to heaven by the gods to heal their pain. The world is a hymn of love. From the loving fire of the sun, the earth emerged, mountains and rivers sprang from it. Love sprouts the bud, blossoms the bud, the breeze swells into a storm on the wings of desire, and the stream of love rushes down the mountain to kiss the bitter salty wave of the distant sea with its sweet water. Love is life and death.

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We leave the immortality of glory to the dead, but we give the immortality of love to the living!

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The image: the memory of the light, which is guarded by the shadow.

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Injustice cannot stand defeat, but truth can.

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If you cut off the petals of a flower, you have not gathered its beauty.

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We always find it intolerable when someone we want to destroy tries to resist.

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Life is nothing but meeting and saying goodbye, and death is the most serious of these, because there is no meeting again.

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Peace be with you, peace my heart. We have to divorce, let's divorce gently. This bumpy road is a fulfillment. Not death. Say a silent goodbye. Our sorrow becomes a song, a fairy tale, our desire becomes a memory.

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Why did the river dry up, why? I built a dam on it to make it mine, That's why the river dried up, that's why.

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Are you hiding from me? Can't find me anymore? How can I bear the burden of these cloudy hours? I'm looking far away, I'm always watching, I'm always looking for you everywhere; my sigh floats plaintively, the breeze hums loudly. Oh, why are you waiting for me down at the garden gate.

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My heart can't take it. Without seeing your face, I keep struggling on bitter, barren, shoreless water.

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Tell me is it all true, my love, tell me is it all true? When these eyes flash their lightning, the dark clouds in your bosom respond stormily. Is it true that my lips are as sweet as the buds of first conscious love?

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Those who have everything but you smile at those who have nothing but you!

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The candle of the meeting burns for a long time; it turns off in a moment when saying goodbye.

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I would like to follow the highway of my child's soul, where there are no borders.

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Even the weak can be terrifying when they are frantically trying to appear strong.

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Memory, this priestess, kills the present and offers her heart to the tomb of the dead past.

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So let's sing our last song and part! Forget the night when the night is over! Who am I trying to wrap in my embracing arms? Dreams can never be held captive! My greedy hands press the emptiness to my heart and it hurts my chest!

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The mind, when it is all logic, is like a double-edged sword; it bleeds the hand of the one who spins it.

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The only difference between a good person and a bad person is that the good people pretend, and the bad people don't want to look like what they really are.

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The world consists of land and water, and human life consists of eating and beating, and beating predominates.

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When youth passes away, a beautiful time comes into life - calm and deep, like sunny autumn. In this period, the sowing of life and the fruit in the garden ripen. The springtime licentiousness of youth is then no longer appropriate. It is as if the building of our earthly dwelling is now being topped off by life. During this period, everything we experience - both good and bad, joyful and sad - changes our consciousness. We give up getting lost in the enchanted world of daydreaming and arrange life as our limited possibilities allow. We are not attracted by the seductive gaze of an unknown woman in love, and we value old affections more. The freshness of youth then fades, and the ageless soul of a person stands out more and more clearly in the expression of the face and eyes after a long life together. The voice, the smile, the look - everything is in harmony with the inner world of the person. We no longer hope for the unattainable, we no longer mourn the unfaithful lover, and we forgive those who betray us. And then we give our hearts to the one who stood by us, who loved us, who remained loyal to us after every storm of life and every bitter parting. And we feel the satisfaction and peace in the lovely circle of tried and true friends. Bitter is the fate of those who, in the soft twilight of life, drag new affections and new successes to no avail, who are not waiting for the intimate home in which they can rest, and who are not greeted by the warm light of the lamp when they return home in the evening.

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This yearning is for someone we feel in the dark, but cannot see in the sunlight.

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Love is the greatest happiness that man can achieve, because only through love can he know that he is more than himself and that he is one with the universe.

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We don't love because we don't understand, or rather: we don't understand because we don't love.

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The river has a bed, it has banks, but is the river all banks? Aren't these very constraints causing your water to move forward?

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Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. This is not just an emotion, this is reality: joy is the root of all creation.

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We cannot judge a person correctly until we love them.

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The sublime quality of love is that it accepts limitations and shackles and that it rises above them.

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Don't leave until you ask my permission, my love. I stayed up all night and now my eyelashes are heavy with sleep. I'm afraid I'll lose you if I sleep.

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You don't know how beautiful what you gave is, and you don't know that you are more beautiful than yourself.

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Life finds its richness in what the world demands of it, and its value in what love expects of it.

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At the soft touch of your hand, the shackles of my heart snap off, and joyful words are born for the unspeakable.

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I perk up and reach out to touch you. I ask myself, "Is this a dream?" I could only wrap my heart around your legs and hold you close to my chest.

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Hopelessness dulls the pain of irreplaceable loss over time.

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Even if the gods refuse their favors to mortals, they expect fervent worship from their worshipers, and are angry if anyone fails to do so.

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The history of man waits patiently for the triumph of the wronged man.