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
Inspiration
The way you laugh at others when you see them suffer for their mistakes, why
don't you laugh at yourself also when you are paying for your foolishness? If you
learn this, all your miseries will immediately be 'dispelled'.
-Deep Trivedi
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.
-Mike Dolan
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse.
-J. R. D. Tata
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
-George Bernard Shaw
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
-William Wordsworth
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
-Anonymous
