"The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness……" — Chinmayananda Saraswati
"The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts."
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Chinmayananda Saraswati
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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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Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
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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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More Comfort Quotes
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one of 2,510 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
— Adele
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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