Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Money
  • Violence

• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

  

  Rain
  • Wind
  • Rain
  • Tangled

• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • People
  • Study
  • Bored

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Lies

• I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Cowboy

• Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Angry

• There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

  

  Jessica Cutler
  • Reality

• What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • World
  • Character
  • Help

• It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Opinion

• One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Baseball

• It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.

  

  Martina McBride
  • House

• I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Believe

• Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • People

• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Seriously

• Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Life
  • World
  • Strong

• The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Christ
  • Possessions

• Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Prayer
  • Curiosity
  • Integration