Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I'm only a human being.
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Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels... try it!
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I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
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Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
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I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
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When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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They're not gong to give Hateful Eight its credit now, they'll give it its credit later. Hateful Eight was too long. I think we've indulged Quentin Tarantino so much with his monologues. Quentin has this very strong cult following around him and his projects, and people are always expecting so much from him.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
