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“Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

“Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

Henry David Thoreau Quote: “Time is like a handful of sand – the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.”

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1. “Peace begins when expectation ends.”

— Sri Chinmoy

Featured in: Peace of Mind Quotes, Peace Quotes

2. “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”

— Sri Chinmoy

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

3. “Paradise is not a place; it’s a state of consciousness.”

— Sri Chinmoy

4. “Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.”

— Sri Chinmoy

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5. “Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.”

— Sri Chinmoy

6. “Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.”

— Sri Chinmoy

7. “Our goal is self-transcendence.”

— Sri Chinmoy

8. “Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

9. “I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.”

— Sri Chinmoy

10. “Music is the language of God. God’s language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.”

— Sri Chinmoy

11. “Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.”

— Sri Chinmoy

12. “If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.”

— Sri Chinmoy

13. “Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.”

— Sri Chinmoy

14. “Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

15. “Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.”

— Sri Chinmoy

16. “When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.”

— Sri Chinmoy

17. “Our goal is not to have a problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems as they appear along our life-road.”

— Sri Chinmoy

18. “Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.”

— Sri Chinmoy

19. “Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.”

— Sri Chinmoy

20. “Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.”

— Sri Chinmoy

21. “There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.”

— Sri Chinmoy

22. “Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

23. “Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.”

— Sri Chinmoy

24. “Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.”

— Sri Chinmoy

25. “Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide.”

— Sri Chinmoy

26. “I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.”

— Sri Chinmoy

27. “Miracles do happen in every human life.”

— Sri Chinmoy

28. “If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.”

— Sri Chinmoy

29. “Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”

— Sri Chinmoy

30. “It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

31. “Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.”

— Sri Chinmoy

32. “Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.”

— Sri Chinmoy

33. “Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.”

— Sri Chinmoy

34. “Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love.”

— Sri Chinmoy

35. “Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.”

— Sri Chinmoy

36. “Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.”

— Sri Chinmoy

37. “If you depend on God’s grace there is no such thing as impossible.”

— Sri Chinmoy

38. “Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.”

— Sri Chinmoy

39. “Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.”

— Sri Chinmoy

40. “A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.”

— Sri Chinmoy

41. “One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.”

— Sri Chinmoy

42. “True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.”

— Sri Chinmoy

43. “No price is too great to pay for inner peace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

44. “The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.”

— Sri Chinmoy

45. “Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.”

— Sri Chinmoy

46. “When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.”

— Sri Chinmoy

47. “My heart’s gratitude Is My life’s plenitude.”

— Sri Chinmoy

48. “Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song – God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.”

— Sri Chinmoy

49. “Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God’s Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.”

— Sri Chinmoy

50. “Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.”

— Sri Chinmoy

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