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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941), the 1913 Nobel Prize Laureate from Bengal, India, gained international fame through his poetry and tours in the early 1900s. Tagore supported Indian independence.

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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

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Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come

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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

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

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it

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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.

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In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

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It is so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple.

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Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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We live in the world when we love it.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

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While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

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