Quotations
Life
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
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean Paul Sartre
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
- Leo Tolstoy
Travel light on your journey in life. Your desires and expectations are heavy baggage which slow you down and thwart your progress. Let them go.
- A Spiritual Leader
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
- Freeman Dyson
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
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
Just when I found out the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
- Scriptures
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
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