Inspirational Quotations by Rabindranath Tagore

  • I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy,
    I woke and I saw that life is all service.
    I served and I saw that service is joy.
    From Issue 25
  • Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
    From Issue 312
  • Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
    From Issue 313
  • When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part without fruits with joy.
    From Issue 314
  • A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
    From Issue 314
  • Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.
    From Issue 316
  • Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
    From Issue 324
  • Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
    From Issue 360
  • With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
    From Issue 381
  • I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
    From Issue 398

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