Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
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Most people don’t think I’m rational. They’re too busy featuring their hurt. They find it irrational not to feature your hurt. That’s how fucked up they are.
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But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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I think that I'm really, I was a reactionary, and now I don't do that any more. Same person, but I don't react. Before, I reacted. I didn't like the cameras, I split.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
