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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDABe honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
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Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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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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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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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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When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
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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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A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
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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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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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