Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur
1861-1941 • Indian
HinduismBhaktiPerennial Philosophy
Bengali polymath, poet, philosopher and the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913). His Gitanjali offered the West a luminous window into Indian spirituality, and his songs and verse remain woven into the soul of Bengal.
Key Works
- Gitanjali
- Stray Birds
- Sadhana
- The Crescent Moon
- Fireflies
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quotes in library
Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
108 quotes“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”
faithStray Birds
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
presenceStray Birds
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
lightnessStray Birds
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
beautyFireflies
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
aspirationFireflies
“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in that of a man, by ambition.”
changeStray Birds
“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”
mindPersonality
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