Swami Sivananda Quotes

I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The little things amount to big things.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we force them.

Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

I think life is a chain of events.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.