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498 Powerful Rabindranath Tagore Quotes to Inspire You

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1. “If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, Error, Openness, Self-discovery, Acceptance Of Perspectives

2. “Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Idolatry, Humility, Divine Presence, Reality Check, Mortal Limits

3. “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Children, Hope, Divine Message, Innocence, Potential

4. “Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, Creativity, Energy, Consciousness, Transformative Experience

5. “God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.”

Rabindranath Tagore

God, Love, Obedience, Spiritual Freedom, Moral Choices

6. “When at even-tide the child of want lies down, dirty and hungry, in his squalid home, and hears of prince and princess and fabled gold, then in the dark hovel lighted by its dim flickering candle, his mind springs free from its bonds of poverty and misery and walks in fresh beauty and glowing raiment, strong beyond all fear of hindrance, through that fairy realm where all is possible.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Poverty, Dreams, Imagination, Childhood, Resilience

7. “The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Flower, Journey, Beauty, Aspiration, Nature’s Symbolism

8. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Time, Mindfulness, Lightness, Transient Beauty

9. “Our creation is the modification of relationship.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Creation, Relationships, Modification, Social Dynamics, Interconnectedness

10. “Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship, Honesty, Social Dynamics, Compliments, Relational Truth

11. “The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Colors, Music, Expression, Soul Connection, Emotional Resonance

12. “Merely to exist is not enough.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Existence, Purpose, Meaning, Fulfillment, Human Experience

13. “I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Freedom, Spirituality, Divine Relationship, Personal Belief

14. “The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Art, Nature, Relationship, Creativity, Duality Of Roles

15. “Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Connection, Prayer, Unity, Transcendence, Individuality

16. “Thy desire at once puts out the light from the lamp it touches with its breath. It is unholy – take not thy gifts through its unclean hands. Accept only what is offered by sacred love.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Desire, Purity, Love, Acceptance, Spiritual Gifts

17. “Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Gain, Loss, Acceptance, Life Lessons, Perspective On Value

18. “Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom, Nature, Defiance, Strength, Transformative Power

19. “Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Consciousness, Meaning, Emotional Depth, Universal Truth

20. “Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Ephemeral Connection, Nature, Meeting, Departure, Transient Relationships

21. “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.”

Rabindranath Tagore

India, Vivekananda, Positivity, Learning, Spiritual Insight

22. “Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Fame, Truth, Humility, Authenticity, Inner Worth

23. “The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Differences, Unity, Social Harmony, Acceptance, Coexistence

24. “King, they work, because they must. We work, because we are in love with life. That is why they condemn us as unpractical, and we condemn them as lifeless.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Work, Passion, Love For Life, Practicality, Societal Judgments

25. “In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height. In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature, Stillness, Contemplation, Height Vs Depth, Introspective Exploration

26. “We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Consciousness, Morality, Consumption, Reflection, Ethical Dilemmas

27. “Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Gender Roles, Masculinity, Femininity, Societal Expectations, Perceptions Of Completion

28. “We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Education, Passivity, Learning, Stagnation, Critical Awareness

29. “Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Discipline, Wisdom, Custom, True Meaning, Critical Thinking

30. “Oh! what lies we women have to tell! When we are mothers, we tell lies to pacify our children; and when we are wives, we tell lies to pacify the fathers of our children. We are never free from this necessity.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Women, Truth, Motherhood, Societal Roles, Emotional Labor

498 Powerful Rabindranath Tagore Quotes to Inspire You

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