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Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
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Beautiful Evil Goodness Quality Thinking Yourself
If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
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Darkness Light Room Yourself
In the state of love, no matter what you do, it’s going to be good.
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Goodness Love State Yourself
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Perception Person
People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.
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Escape Face Himself People Run
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.
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Control Delay Habit Life Mental Success 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
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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Change Inspirational Transformation World Yourself
Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
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Attraction Karma Respond Yourself
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Along Calm Command Easy Serene 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.
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As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
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Assumption Condensation Form Material Thinking Water
If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
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Bad Circumstance Yourself
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
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Acceptance Change Effort Inspirational Thinking
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.
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Break Power Purpose Weakness Willing World Yourself