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Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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.
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Beyond Control Domain Forget Live Past Present Wisdom Yourself
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.
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Greatness Influence Love See Willing Yourself
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
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Appearance Benefit Direction Place Stage
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
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Anxiety Believe Capacity Heart Limitation Trust Yourself
Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.
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Beauty Change Diamond Gemstone Himself Soul Value
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence… To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
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Faith Fear God Himself Justice Love Man Mercy Presence Protection Wisdom
Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.
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Beautiful Experience Growth Purpose Strong Suffering Trial
Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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Forget Life Play Role Yourself
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Attraction Heart Live Thinking True Yourself
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.
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Ability Development Habit Pattern Personality Start Thinking Yourself
If 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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Feeling Happiness Hard Time Inspirational Sad World Yourself
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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Beautiful Calm Mindset Perspective Quick Smooth Yourself
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
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Astonishment Complication Happiness Life Simplicity Yourself
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Alone Happiness Heart Oneself Satisfaction
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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Consciousness Ideas Philosophy Realization Spiritual Truth