Swami Chinmayananda's Quotations on Love and Happiness

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These , one of the well known exponent of Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta.

These quotations truly reflect the Vedantic interpretation of Love and

Happiness. A large collection of Swami Chinmayananda's quotations are

available at the Web Site: http://www.chinmaya-chicago.org/quotes.htm

 

 

Quotations on Love

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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

 

Faults become thick when love is thin.

 

Universe is a cosmos and not a chaos. There exists a mental affinity; a

scientific law; a rhythm of mental relationship in which the entire

living world is held together, in one web of love.

 

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to

receive. The only demand

of life is the privilege to love all.

 

Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own

weakness and follies. But,

cushion your words and attitudes with Love. Love is the greatest

persuasive power we know

in life.

 

We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.

 

Love is the heart of all religions; the theme of all classical works of

art and literature; the song of all devotees. Scientists know only what

love does, not what love is. Love is to human hearts what the sun is to

flowers.

 

We like someone because, we love someone in spite of...

 

Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace

the person with whom you have quarreled.

 

To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.

 

Quotations on Happiness:

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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

 

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of

increasing comforts.

 

He who depends on chances and situations to be happy, is a Sansari (one

who lives a worldly life. Sanyasi is the one who has renounced worldly

life)

 

Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.

 

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.

 

The cultured give happiness wherever they go . The uncultured whenever

they go.

 

Everyone points to the other man, who, according to him, is happier.

But the only one, who has

the courage to declare that he is truly happy, is he who has

relinquished all his passions and

hungers from within.