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Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none.
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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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When a man is under the control of senses. He is of the world. When he has controlled the senses the world is of him
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The greatest religion is to be true to your nature. Have faith in yourselves.
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
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Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before.
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The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
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See for the highest, aim at the highest, and you shall reach the highest.
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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
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Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction.
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The reason for every misunderstanding is that we see the people as we are but not as they are.
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When I asked God for strength, he gave me difficult situations to face.
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Golden rules: Who is helping you, don’t forget them. Who is loving you, don’t hate them. Who is trusting you, don’t cheat them
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Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead, if you lose, you can guide.
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Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth.
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A man is not poor without a rupee but a man is really poor without a dream and ambition.
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External nature is only internal nature writ large.
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The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, love.
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Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison
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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.
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Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
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In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
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God is here in all these human souls.
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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ’s character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him.
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The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them
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Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
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God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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First, believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything.
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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults.
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Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an intelligent person in this world.
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Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
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The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illumine
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
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So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
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Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
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