The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing.
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.
infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.
always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.
if you want to help others, your little self must go.
all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.
first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.
it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed.
if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.
the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.
stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.
If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.
Never mind failures; they are quite natural,they are the beauty of life, these failures.What would be LIFE without them
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories.
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.