U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
Quotes to Explore
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.
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Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.
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She was hard as stone. And I hated her. I think I still hate her. Though in between then and now, I loved her. I would have done anything for her. And I did. I did everything she asked.
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
