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
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
-William James
Great tasks are not accomplished driven by great ambitions, but the highest
level of concentration and a firm determination.
-Deep Trivedi
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the centre of their being.
-Rumi
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If taking a bath in the holy Ganges can really wash off your 'sins', then why are
poor criminals put behind bars? Giving them a dip in the Ganges, why aren't
their 'sins' also washed off?
-Deep Trivedi
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
