Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes
The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.
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Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").
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In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
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Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
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If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.
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The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
