Baba Hari Dass Quotes

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

Baba Hari Dass

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  • World
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• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  

  Kate Smith
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  • Hair
  • Singing

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
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• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
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  • Music
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• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
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• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
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• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Parents
  • Amazing

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

  

  Ian Rush
  • World
  • Why
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• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • World
  • Against
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• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Free
  • Simple

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Reality
  • Best

• If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • World
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

  

  Paula Deen
  • Good
  • Magic

• It's a dream that we, as women footballers, get to play in the same stadium as the men.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dream

• Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

  

  Ellie Kendrick
  • Success
  • Drama
  • Period

• There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Fighting
  • President
  • Army

• The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • World
  • Light
  • Desire