“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
1861 – 1941
Bengali poet, novelist and composer, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
“Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”
“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”
“We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him.”
“Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness.”
“In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.”
“Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man, but joy is.”
“Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance.”
“God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.”
“While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
“The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented.”
“There is no external means of taking freedom by the throat.”
“Bondage in all its forms has its stronghold in the inner self and not in the outside world.”
