Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.
Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others – think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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.
You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.
Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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.
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.
Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
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.
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you.
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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.
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
To work with God’s happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.