Sri Chinmoy Quotes

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

I try to avoid giving advice.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

I don't really try to give out advice, to be honest.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.” “You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said. “I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.” “Then give your words to Bran too.

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

People can portray me anyway they want because I don’t give a damn… But don’t you analyze me and don’t you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don’t you dare do it until then.