Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

“ Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. ”

“ I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ”

“ The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. ”

“ If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. ”

“ Music fills the infinite between two souls. ”

“ Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are, Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words, Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you, Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart. ”

“ Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

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

“ Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. ”

“ You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. ”

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