“Bondage in all its forms has its stronghold in the inner self and not in the outside world.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man (1922)

About Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941

Bengali poet, novelist and composer, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913).

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.”

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

“It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising.”

“For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”