S. N. Goenka Quotes

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

S. N. Goenka

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• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Real
  • Soul

• I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Things

• I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

  

  Patina Miller
  • City
  • Sister
  • Busy

• I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Pirate
  • Especially
  • Mermaids

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Business
  • Giving

• After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Health
  • Husband
  • Smile

• Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Stars

• I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Acting

• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Home
  • Party
  • Day

• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways – to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Good
  • Way
  • Me

• The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • True
  • Quality

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I want to go to Morocco really bad.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Go

• Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sun

• 'There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Stop

• 'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best—' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Stop

• There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • World
  • Table
  • Gaming

• Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, 'I know what that is now. I know it's not another dog.'

  

  Patti Davis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dog

• According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

  

  Arthur Kornberg
  • Long

• Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Job
  • Think
  • Gift

• Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

  

  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns
  • Good
  • Emotional

• Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

  

  S. N. Goenka