"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

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Leo Tolstoy

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“I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.”
“Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."”
“Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.”

Source : "Autobiography of a Yogi". Ch. 35 : The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya. Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.
“The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.”
“No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.”
“I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.”
“We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.”

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