Vinoba Bhave Quotes

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

The disciplined are free.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

I'm straightlaced, don't do drugs, stick to my regimen.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.