You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Life
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
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
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
-Nelson Mandela
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it’s all good.
-Anonymous
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubinstein
Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
