"Children are not vessels to be filled but…" — Chinmayananda Saraswati
"Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit."
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13 Quotes by Chinmayananda Saraswati
Chinmayananda Saraswati has 13 quotes on this site.
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is…
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Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior…
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains…
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Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
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The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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