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Rabindranath Tagore Art Quotes - (17 quotes)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Acceptance category:

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Activity category:

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Belief category:

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Creativity category:

The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Deception category:

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Desire category:

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

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Flow category:

-from Gitanjali...
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Goodness category:

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Innocence category:

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Intellect category:

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

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Joy category:

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Life category:

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Love category:

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Modernism category:

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Nature category:

-from Gitanjali...
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures... shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Perfection category:

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Rabindranath Tagore - From the Unknowns category:

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown. (Rabindranath Tagore)

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