Top 31 Sivananda Saraswati Quotes
#1. The difficulty in weaning the mind from worldly thoughts, from external objects, and fixing it on God is the same as in making the Ganga flow towards Gangotri instead of its natural flow towards Ganga-Sagar. It is like rowing against the current of the Yamuna.
Sivananda Saraswati
#2. I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#3. Don't be sad; tomorrow and forever, we'll be together
Onew
#4. Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates
#5. Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success
Sivananda Saraswati
#6. Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
Sivananda Saraswati
#7. I think that show will go down in history ... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!
Denise Crosby
#8. If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Sivananda Saraswati
#9. Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb - it is bound to explode.
Sivananda Radha Saraswati
#10. Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.
Elizabeth Banks
#12. There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda Saraswati
#13. Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
Sivananda Saraswati
#14. She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother.
Susan Ornbratt
#15. The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make the wars.
Aldous Huxley
#16. Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Sivananda Saraswati
#17. Humility and gratitude go hand in hand ... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions.
Sivananda Radha Saraswati
#18. You make every case for marriage but love.
Rachel Hauck
#19. I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.
Margaret Cho
#20. An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
Sivananda Saraswati
#21. It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.
Lynn Redgrave
#22. After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.
Sivananda Radha Saraswati
#23. The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.
Ruth Ahmed
#24. My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
Taylor Momsen
#25. Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer
#26. Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making.
Jane Hirshfield
#27. Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
Sivananda Saraswati
#28. Just because some people actually work for their money doesn't mean they are beneath you.
Kevin Kwan
#29. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda Saraswati
#31. Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
Sivananda Saraswati
