Satish Kumar Quotes

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Satish Kumar

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Write

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • American
  • Chinese

• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Glorification

• There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Brother

• Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Become

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Why
  • Want
  • Stay

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • God
  • Opinion

• We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Someone

• I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Door

• These dysfunctionals make him aware of how functional he is.

  

  John Updike

• They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Spiritual

• I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.'

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • College
  • Flying
  • Gentleman

• We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Action
  • Mean
  • Spiritual