Swami Sivanada Famous Quotes
"There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand."
"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
"Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself."
"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."
"When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state."
Swami Sivanada Quotations
"Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart."
Jesus
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
Juvenal
"Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe."
Flannery O Connor
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
Charles Dickens
"God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it."
Real Live Preacher
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix
"O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone"
William Shakespeare
"Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world."
Charles Hanson Towne