Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

  Kate Bush
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• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
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• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
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• Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
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• Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;Well, you know, there's no escape.That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.

  

  Ani DiFranco
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• You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies... It is not a life sentence, but a life of service.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
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• To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness - care for watching, but don't stop and interpret 'I am free,' then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

  

  Bruce Lee
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• In the last year of my presidency, I travelled 200 days out of 365. You have to lead a very disciplined life. To be able to do that, I need a lot of sleep. But I have no problems sleeping. On long days, I can easily take a nap for 20 minutes in the afternoon.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
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• Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

  

  Charles Boustany
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• Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

  

  Ashish Chauhan
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• My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

  

  Simone Manuel
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  • Medal

• Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Life
  • Forget
  • Intelligent