Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Quotations
Life
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
-Jim Rohn
Travel light on your journey in life. Your desires and expectations are heavy baggage which slow you down and thwart your progress. Let them go.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Chidanand Saraswati"
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
-Audrey Hepburn
When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed.
-Neil Maxwell
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
