Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Hope

12 quotes

  1. If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. ~ 6

  2. We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope. ~ 16

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

  4. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.

  5. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

  6. I believe that there is an ideal hovering over the earth, an ideal of that Paradise which is not the mere outcome of imagination, but the ultimate reality towards which all things are moving. I believe that this vision of Paradise is to be seen in the sunlight, and the green of the earth, in the flowing streams, in the beauty of springtime and the repose of a winter morning. Everywhere in this earth the spirit of Paradise is awake and sending forth its voice.

  7. I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  8. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars

  9. Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

  10. The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

  11. The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?

  12. You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

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