Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
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People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
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So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
