Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Tagore, Rabindranath
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
Tagore, Rabindranath
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
Tagore, Rabindranath
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
Tagore, Rabindranath
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Tagore, Rabindranath
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore
Tagore, Rabindranath
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Tagore, Rabindranath