Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

#1. Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Dayananda Saraswati

#2. Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

Dayananda Saraswati

#3. Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Dayananda Saraswati

#4. I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

Joshua Bell

#5. There's nothing as 'Wrong' or 'Right'. It's the extent of how our mind can interpret the circumstances.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#6. Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

Dayananda Saraswati

#7. I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

Gertrude Stein

#8. I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind

S.L. Northey

#9. Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

Dayananda Saraswati

#10. No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Dayananda Saraswati

#11. I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

Win Butler

#12. A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

Dayananda Saraswati

#13. A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

C.S. Lewis

#14. In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

Judy Horacek

#15. In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Dayananda Saraswati

#16. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote ... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Paul Weyrich

#17. What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Dayananda Saraswati

#18. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Dayananda Saraswati

#19. I'm sorry you're angry" is NOT an apology.

Lisa Lutz

#20. That undamaged part of her was so small, it was only good for one night.

Nic Kelman

#21. The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

Dayananda Saraswati