Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.”

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”

“A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

“Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.”

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”