Rabindranath Tagore Quotes, Moving Quotes, Twists Quotes

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

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Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

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The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

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Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

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The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

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To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

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Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

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Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

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The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

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If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

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Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

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

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