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Gora

Rabindranath Tagore

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.”

“...those in this world who have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life are the ones who raise society to greatness! Those who merely live according to rule do not advance society, they only carry it along.”

“Where one loves, one can follow without agreeing—one can surrender oneself with eyes open.”

“God never under any conditions binds His creation with fetters; He awakens it through constant changes to ever new life.”

“But the beauty which Paresh Babu saw in her face was not that of complexion or features, but of the soul which there found its expression,—not just the pleasantness of a faultless shape but the firmness of strength, the brightness of independence,—characteristics which attract a chosen few, but repel most others.”

“The moment you clasp an infant to your heart, you realize that nobody is born into a caste.”

“The absence of human company and affection seemed to choke his heart.”

“It is my Bharatvarsha in all its glory, replete with wealth, knowledge, spiritual faith.”

“...the testing of truth has not been carried out once and for all by a group of learned men in some past age; truth has to be discovered anew through the blows and opposition it encounters from the people of every age.”

“our atmosphere breeds fear just as it breeds malaria”

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Book Keywords:

infant, fear, untouchability, india, bharat, patriotism, atmosphere, glory, affection, society, human-company, loneliness, caste

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