Muni Quotes & Sayings

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards — Muni Natarajan

Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself. — Muni Natarajan

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. — Paul Muni

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others. — Jamie Oliver

You don't have to be where you find yourself to be. — Muni Natarajan

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done. — Paul Muni

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act. — Paul Muni

Who is the self that you are helping? — Muni Natarajan

Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man! — John Greenleaf Whittier

In the monastery, you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them — Muni Natarajan

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. — William Shakespeare

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin. — Paul Muni

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni. — Tony Randall

It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in those who stray and do not repent. Those who have not committed cannot stray. — Sarah Price

What use is a good thought if no one agrees with it? — Paul Muni

The deeper in you go the more unique you become — Muni Natarajan

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it. — Aileen Quinn

Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something. — Muni Natarajan

Realize the self of yourself. — Muni Natarajan

... was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had. — Sylvia Day

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. — Paul Muni

We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them. — Josei Toda

Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unbalanced and prone to faction, and it is our business to inflame them. Any small coterie, bound together by some interest which other men dislike or ignore, tends to develop inside itself a hothouse mutual admiration, and towards the outer world, a great deal of pride and hatred which is entertained without shame because the 'Cause' is its sponsor and it is thought to be impersonal. — C.S. Lewis

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. — Paul Muni

In the Bhagavad Gita. One stanza reads: "Offering the inhaling breath into the exhaling breath and offering the exhaling breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both breaths; thus he releases prana from the heart and brings life force under his control."2 The interpretation is: "The yogi arrests decay in the body by securing an additional supply of prana (life force) through quieting the action of the lungs and heart; he also arrests mutations of growth in the body by control of apana (eliminating current). Thus neutralizing decay and growth, the yogi learns life-force control." Another Gita stanza states: "That meditation-expert (muni) becomes eternally free who, seeking the Supreme Goal, is able to withdraw from external phenomena by fixing his gaze within the mid-spot of the eyebrows and by neutralizing the even currents of prana and apana [that flow] within the nostrils and lungs; and to control his sensory mind and intellect; and to banish desire, fear, and anger."3 — Paramahansa Yogananda

Well, you know what I always say: 'overkill is better than underkill'! — Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

Nature refuses to rest. — John Updike

How does the meadow-flower its bloom
unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and in that freedom
bold. — William Wordsworth