Ramakrishna Quotes

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Ramakrishna

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• I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man
  • Know
  • Easy

• I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Ever

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • She
  • Running
  • Rain

• Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Fire
  • Coward

• So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • World
  • Religious

• On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One was blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Hand
  • Band
  • Air

• I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Live
  • Book
  • Parents

• I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Animal

• The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Flower
  • Rejection
  • Terms

• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • God
  • Study

• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Knows
  • Taste
  • Western

• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Flower
  • Gardening
  • Bees