While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes From Rabindranath Tagore This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity. Rabindranath Tagore eternitywisdomfound From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. Rabindranath Tagore godrunningchildren Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success. Rabindranath Tagore accomplishmentsuccessenemy The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." Rabindranath Tagore mothernightdeath These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination. Rabindranath Tagore boathourspaper The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life. Rabindranath Tagore crushgreedbeautiful We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow. Rabindranath Tagore newbornnewborn-childchildren The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. Rabindranath Tagore sunflowerunhappydawn Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. Rabindranath Tagore dearwake-upstranger And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk. Rabindranath Tagore inspirationalmenlife Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Rabindranath Tagore painheartgrieving We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. Rabindranath Tagore gainsfreedominspirational Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible. Rabindranath Tagore simpleexpressionart Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. Rabindranath Tagore summersongfall Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Rabindranath Tagore generositykindnesslife Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. Rabindranath Tagore coinsgivingdeath Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God. Rabindranath Tagore mencountryideas Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way. Rabindranath Tagore bloomingflowerway In death the many become one; in life the one become many. Rabindranath Tagore And because I love this life Rabindranath Tagore rest-in-peacemotherchildren
