Rabindranath Tagore quotes, with sources

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

We live in this world when we love it.

Let me keep your footprints in my heart.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

God’s great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.

Because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

Never be afraid of the moments—thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might.

Let the world find its way to you.

We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.

Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

This life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship.

On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

Outwardly nature is busy and restless, inwardly she is all silence and peace.

Love spontaneously gives itself in endless gifts.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

This old, old day of our earth is born again and again every morning.

Life as a whole never takes death seriously.

That only which is done for love is done freely, however much pain it may cause.

Delusions of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.

Branches are roots in the air.