Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIf you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
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Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
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Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
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A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
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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
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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
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Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
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Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
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The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.
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A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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Truth is not afraid of questions.
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Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.
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Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
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