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Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Greatness Influence Love See Willing Yourself
Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Activity Carry Freedom Mindset Refuse Resolution Strength
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

God Meditation Reading Thinking Time
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Beyond Control Domain Forget Live Past Present Wisdom Yourself
When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Divine Glory Meditation Realization Shine Yourself
When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Freedom Heart Mindset Purity Strong Yourself
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Generosity Gift Heart Love Philosophy
Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Battle Circumstance Conqueror Hero Life Smile
I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Burden Expression Himself Perfection Wisdom
Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Beginning Darkness Day Failure Flight Morning Radiation Sunshine
Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Control Delay Habit Life Mental Success Yourself
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Eyes Heart Myself Rich Smile Soul
A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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Life Smooth Victory Yourself
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Happiness Learning Yourself
The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Break Power Purpose Weakness Willing World Yourself
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Creation Hide Reach Struggle Yourself