Swami Sivananda (Sivananda Saraswati) Quotes
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'
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We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
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A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
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Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
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I've been through a lot of struggles.
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I want to be in 'Star Wars.' That would be amazing.
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In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.
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Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
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I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.
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For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
