On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival. Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes From Rabindranath Tagore To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. Rabindranath Tagore silence speak waiting The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong. Rabindranath Tagore weakness strong trying The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. Rabindranath Tagore nature flower running Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you. Rabindranath Tagore soul found world My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more. Rabindranath Tagore eye age ears The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. Rabindranath Tagore realizing age people In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Rabindranath Tagore objects men art Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore dance motivational life Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Rabindranath Tagore heart memories past If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. Rabindranath Tagore finding-yourself goal journey We live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore live-in-the-moment inspirational love The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master. Rabindranath Tagore slave lovers art This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. Rabindranath Tagore keys spiritual men Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark. Rabindranath Tagore light dark bird When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty. Rabindranath Tagore harmony feels men You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. Rabindranath Tagore felt waiting long Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house. Rabindranath Tagore thrones house world Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love. Rabindranath Tagore lasts love life From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations. Rabindranath Tagore stars inspirational life What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow. Rabindranath Tagore self-discovery shadow