Rabindranath Tagore quotes

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Death
Dawn
Light
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship
Acquaintance
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time
First
Name
Yesterday
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time
Learning
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
God
Man
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore
Difficulty
Will
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Truth
Bigotry
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.
Rabindranath Tagore
Truth
Sea
Silence
Water
Words
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore
God
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
Sea
Water
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
Art
Soul
Man
We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love
World
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom
Gain
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
Humility