Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Rabindranath Tagore

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

Rabindranath Tagore

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Rabindranath Tagore

Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked-this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind-saving me from perils of overmuch desire.

Rabindranath Tagore

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Rabindranath Tagore

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

Rabindranath Tagore

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Rabindranath Tagore

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

Rabindranath Tagore