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Rabindranath Tagore : Quotes and Captions

- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
- “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
- “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
- “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
- “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
- “Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
- “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
- “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
- “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
- “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

- “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
- “Music fills the infinite between two souls”
- “We live in the world when we love it.”
- “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”
- “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
- “Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ”
- “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
- “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
- “Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
- “The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
- “Age considers; youth ventures.”
- “God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. ”
- “Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
- “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance”

- “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
- “The greed for fruit misses the flower.”
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
We live in the world when we love it.
- “Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”

- “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
- “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
- “The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”
- “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
- We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.”
- “Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”
- “Age considers; youth ventures.”
- “The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
- “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
- “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
- “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”