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
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.
-Morrissey
Just when I found out the meaning of life, they changed it.
-George Carlin
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
-Jim Rohn
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
