“Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.”

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant’s back.

The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

You can’t teach a hunter it’s wrong to kill.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

As soon as a person starts thinking, ‘I want to be a better person,’ that is the start of Yoga.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means – whatever that means.

You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.

Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.