“Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.”

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

All who have come to me must have enema each day.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power

To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen

Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.

Attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Everything is attainable, first in the mind. Think differently and you will grow differently.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.