Guru Rabindranath's Birthday

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024

1. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
2. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
3. If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
4. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
5. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
6. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
7. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
8. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
9. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
10. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
11. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
12. The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
13. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
14. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
15. We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
16. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
17. The biggest changes in a woman's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
18. He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the gate open.
19. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
20. Facts are many, but the truth is one.
21. We live in the world when we love it.
22. Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
23. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
24. The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
25. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
26. We come nearest to the great when we are great in love.
27. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
28. Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
29. The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
30. I have become my own version of an optimist. 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.
31. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
32. The light of a whole life dies when love is done.
33. The greatest distance in this world is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I love you.
34. I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
35. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
36. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
37. We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
38. The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.
39. We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every moment.
40. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
41. The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
42. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
43. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
44. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
45. The morning sea of silence broke into ripples of bird songs; and the flowers were all merry by the roadside; and the wealth of gold was scattered through the rift of the clouds while we busily went on our way and paid no heed.
46. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
47. The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
48. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
49. Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are.
50. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
51. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
52. Let me light my lamp," says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.
53. Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
54. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
55. The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
56. The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.
57. I have become my own version of an optimist. 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.
58. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
59. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
60. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
61. We live in the world when we love it.
62. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
63. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
64. The greatest poet has nothing to write about. He is the poet of the unconsummated possibility, the poet of the future.
65. 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.
66. We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
67. The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.
68. The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
69. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
70. I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
71. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
72. We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every moment.
73. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
74. The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
75. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
76. Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
77. The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
78. If you want to know the real living God, go and live with the poor, simple, and destitute.
79. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
80. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
81. Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
82. The light of a whole life dies when love is done.
83. The biggest changes in a woman's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
84. Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are.
85. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
86. Let me light my lamp," says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.
87. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
88. The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
89. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
90. Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
91. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
92. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
93. Facts are many, but the truth is one.
94. We live in the world when we love it.

95. Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
96. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
97. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
98. Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
99. We come nearest to the great when we are great in love.
100. The morning sea of silence broke into ripples of bird songs; and the flowers were all merry by the roadside; and the wealth of gold was scattered through the rift of the clouds while we busily went on our way and paid no heed.
101. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.