Swami Sivananda Quotes

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: September 8, 1887 - July 14, 1963

Topics

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All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

John Banville

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I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Joelle Carter

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Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

John Crowley

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I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

Andrew Greeley

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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Ann Landers

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Everything I want, I do it like it's the last thing.

Trevante Rhodes

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It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

Mike Nichols

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One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

Michael Johnson

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Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.

Loretta Lynch

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Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that part never made me afraid or worried at all. When I was at my peak, around 12 and 13, I won my junior national and senior national titles back to back.

Dominique Moceanu

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You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

Dennis Rodman

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