H. W. L. Poonja Quotes

Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

H. W. L. Poonja

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Artist

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Luck

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
  • Change

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Guilt

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• Success is a process for all of us, and as long as you are making consistent progress towards your goals - sincerely giving your best effort more often than not - then you are already successful and deserve to feel proud of yourself.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Long
  • Success
  • Giving

• Not only was Edwin Land one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Investor
  • Edwin Land

• Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Free
  • Child
  • Down

• It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Kids
  • Future

• It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.'

  

  Bernard Malamud
  • Done

• Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Freedom