Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIf 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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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
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It doesn’t matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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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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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.
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The soul’s first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
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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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Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
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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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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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