"Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get."

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Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#Happiness Quotes #Giving Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“I never set out to be a photographer.”
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.”

Source : "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.
“Sometimes I feel fashion is not open-minded enough. We need to push the old crowd to believe in what I believe, in the new generation. I remember when I started, my campaigns and and how I connected my love for music with fashion were a tiny bit controversial because they were like, 'How can you bring hip-hop or music into a luxury world?' or 'How you can be so connected to digital and use social media in luxury world?' Now it's changed, obviously, for the best, but I still think that we could push a bit more.”
“My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.”
“You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.”

Source : "Drew Barrymore: 'I've lost count of the number of times I've cried over men'". www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.
“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2011). “The Suitcase: A Novel”, p.13, Counterpoint Press
“The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.”

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