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
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
Life has become immeasurably better since I have stopped taking it seriously.
-Hunter S. Thompson
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
I love life because what more is there.
-Anthony Hopkins
