Rabidranath Tagore was born on 7 May,1861 in Calcutta. Rabidranath Tagore was the son of Mr. Debendranath Tagore and Mrs. Sarada Devi. Rabidranath Tagore was young when his mother passed away. His spouse was Mrinalini Devi. His father was a traveler and that is why he was nursed by maids and servants.
In 1901, Tagore moved to Shanti Niketan ashram and opened a school in an open area. He followed the Guru-Shisha traditional method of teaching. The School started with five students and they used to study under the trees. Rabidranath Tagore wife and two children passed away during this time. This incident disturbed him and he started writing poetry stories and novels. Gradually his work started growing and got an immense popularity in India as well as in foreign. He also got an award and Nobel Prize in Literature. Rabidranath Tagore started to write Gitanjali in Bengali Language and afterwards translated his poems , songs to English. He traveled to about 30 countries from 1878 to 1932. There he took his literary work to other people who did not understand the Bengali language. At the Last stage Rabidrantah Tagore suffered from many diseases and died on 7 August, 1941.
Famous 50 Quotes of Rabindranath Tagore
- If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars
- We live in the world when we love it
- The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken
- Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it
- To find God, you must welcome everything
- If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars
- You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long
- The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail
- “And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”
- “You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.”
- “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
- While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
- The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
- I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.
- Man’s cry is to reach his fullest expression
- The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
- While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
- The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind
- Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love
- Facts are many, but the truth is one
- If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out
- Truth reveals itself in beauty.
- Love gives beauty to everything it touches
- The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
- Life’s aspirations come in the guise of children.
- The movement of life has to rest in its own music.
- Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
- God finds himself by creating.
- The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
- Never be afraid of the moments – thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
- God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
- Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
- The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Dreams can never be made captive.
- A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.
- CANNOT choose the best. The best chooses me.
- Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
- My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.
- He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
- The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.
- Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.
- It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
- The Stronger is the imagination the less imaginary it is.
- Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded.
- Where one loves, one can follow without agreeing – one can surrender oneself with eyes open.
- Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
- Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness.
- Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.
- I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man.