Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”. May his quotes inspire you to chase your dreams.
1. “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
2. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore
3. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” Rabindranath Tagore
4. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning.” Rabindranath Tagore
5. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.” Rabindranath Tagore
6. “We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.” Rabindranath Tagore
7. “Facts are many, but the truth is one.” Rabindranath Tagore”
8. “It is very simple to be happy but it is very difficult to be simple.” Rabindranath Tagore
9. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
10. “Let us not be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” Rabindranath Tagore
11. “That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.” Rabindranath Tagore
12. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” Rabindranath Tagore
13. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” Rabindranath Tagore
14. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” Rabindranath Tagore
15. “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.” Rabindranath Tagore
16. “We live in the world when we love it.” Rabindranath Tagore
17. “Age considers; youth ventures.” Rabindranath Tagore
18. “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” Rabindranath Tagore
19. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” Rabindranath Tagore
20. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.” Rabindranath Tagore
