Bhakti Charu Swami Quotes
Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
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I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.
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It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
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You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.
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You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
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President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
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Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'
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Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
