Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes
What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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Love's an excuse to get hurt.
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All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
