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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDADivisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
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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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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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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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Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you – to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
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If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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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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Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
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When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
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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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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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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.
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