Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Life
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet, philosopher, musician, and educator and the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. This page collects quotes attributed to Rabindranath Tagore on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
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“The ancient Indians distrusted the pace and pomp of urbandom; they distrusted it strongly enough to resist central authority and conformism.... "To know my country one has to travel to that age, when she realized her soul and thus transcended her physical boundaries when she revealed her being in a radiant magnanimity which illumined the eastern horizon, making her recognized as their own by those in alien shores who were awakened into a surprise of life."... [He also said about the culture of Indonesia:] ' I see India all around me.”
Tagore, As attributed and quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture