Ramana Maharshi Quotes
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
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My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
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It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
